MIM Movie Review

This is an archive of the former website of the Maoist Internationalist Movement, which was run by the now defunct Maoist Internationalist Party - Amerika. The MIM now consists of many independent cells, many of which have their own indendendent organs both online and off. MIM(Prisons) serves these documents as a service to and reference for the anti-imperialist movement worldwide.

   Bird Cage, The (1996)

   As criticism of the religious right, a fun parody of hypocrisy among
   the Amerikan family values fascists. Not revolutionary, preaching
   greater tolerance for different lifestyles and begging the religious
   right to accept queens into their families so that everyone can
   live happily ever after. Still, it's progressive for mainstream
   Amerika to see queens portrayed as real people, but the struggle to
   gain acceptance in imperialist society is reactionary.  Queens in
   Amerika are oppressed as outsiders to the dominant hetero-patriarchal
   culture. But they can also be rich and even raise children, while the
   majority of queers on the planet face survival issues before sexual
   liberation. Progressive queers in Amerika must ally themselves with
   the international proletariat fighting to overthrow the patriarchy,
   not attempt to win acceptance from the oppressors.