First coupla minutes only, but it seems a fitting ode to conditions both then and now. In fact, a succinct exposition in just these few first seconds as to just how capitalism makes its not very begrudging allowances for the greatest of liberal successes.

After all, it pays to let negroes into the "big leagues" and - on a more immediate, if smaller, scale - to take a piss.

Lovely stuff.

And who recognizes but the few of us? I daresay, however little I deserve to be among those few, almost no one. Probably, nay, almost certainly not even those who made the flick.

Retro to the point of being nearly antique, Strange Days Indeed are as fresh as ever.

Last few seconds...spoiler alert...

"you made me love baseball again" said the fattened capitalist in answer to "Why? Why did you do it?"

Pardon me, but great movie and *FUCK* America, apple pie and any mom who falls for this shit including my own.

I was supposed to see it a couple weeks ago but our plans fell through. I've heard varying opinions on how the movie is, but I honestly have no expectations that it might produce social commentary beyond the obvious tired tropes they always tap. I heard it was more about the whites who brought Jackie to the majors.

I was supposed to see it a couple weeks ago but our plans fell through. I've heard varying opinions on how the movie is, but I honestly have no expectations that it might produce social commentary beyond the obvious tired tropes they always tap. I heard it was more about the whites who brought Jackie to the majors.

This movie and a lot of the civil rights movement in general strikes me as something akin to, "Praise the Lord! The master is going to treat all us slaves equally! We are going to be treated just like the house slaves from now on! Praise the Lord!" Having everyone in a position to be equally exploited and oppressed is better than having some oppressed and exploited worse than others, but it is a marginal distinction, at best. The next step is always, "What now?" I am not belittling or putting down the civil rights movement or any movement toward equality - socially - it is just that it is a claim to victory that must be qualified.

One day they'll make the same movie about Obama. And fat white middle-class minded liberals will cluck at each other in the unemployment lines, "Wow can you imagine a time when things were so, you know, just unequal - and there was, like, oppression?"

One day they'll make the same movie about Obama. And fat white middle-class minded liberals will cluck at each other in the unemployment lines, "Wow can you imagine a time when things were so, you know, just unequal - and there was, like, oppression?"

Friday May 3, 2013?