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.

   Farewell My Concubine (1993)

   Anti-communist director Chen Kaige's portrayal of the lives of two
   actors in China. Initially banned in capitalist China in part because
   of its depiction of gay love, the film has some interesting gender
   commentary and politics. As the line between opera character and real
   life is blurred, one man is at the same time a woman (the concubine)
   in love with a man (the king).  Includes typical revisionist history
   depicting the Cultural Revolution as anarchic and destructive, --
   neglecting especially to show the breakdown between "high" and "low"
   culture that was so important in that struggle.