"The Anarchist Cookbook"
Rated R
101 minutes
2002

It's called a "Screen Media Film" with a review as 
an "independent" film, but Sony is lurking in the 
background. This is nonetheless a too true story 
about anarchism--its unfocused and unserious 
nature leading to frustration and sell-out. In the 
end our anarchist main character Puck ends up 
informing to the FBI. It's hard to have sympathy 
for Puck except that he admits that some of his 
friends were just dumb folks. One could wonder 
what one should expect from the "regular guy" anyway.
Even so, we at MIM do not forgive him.

There is sex, violence, booze, squatting, stealing
and drugs in this film as well as 
an exchange of ideas. We'd like to have to give it 
big props for the ideas, but the ideas are true to 
life lifestyle-anarchism on the edge of becoming 
something more radical. This kind of "anarchism" 
is a lot easier than Marxism and makes good 
Hollywood movies for people interested in decadent 
lifestyles.

Ultimately there is nothing really there, just the 
usual Amerikkkan illusions of the individual. None 
of the anarchists ended up changing anything. They 
live Amerikkkan lifestyles, so much so that many 
people they talk to can't see any difference 
between them and other Amerikkkans, including both 
a waitress character and an employer. Puck's 
Republican girlfriend also says she can't see the 
difference between anarchism and Republican Party 
ideology. The bottom line is that it is true that 
it is difficult to separate from mainstream 
Amerikan ideology without a scientific 
understanding of the country's social structure. 
Lifestyle movements blend in, while
attacks on power distribution really are something 
entirely different.