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.

   Mo' Better Blues (1990)

   Spike Lee says that because of white oppression and domination, Black
   men are in such a state of moral crisis that they don't deserve
   Black women. One womyn uses sex to get the attention her career
   deserves. But the wimmin recognize and challenge their oppression,
   and the man with the misogynous practice meets a fable-like, poetic
   justice. In retribution for his selfish, sexist lifestyle, the man
   (a trumpet player) gets dumped by both women and then has his mouth
   broken in a fight. His precious career is ruined. In the end one of
   the wimmin saves his life by marrying him.  MIM sides with the movie's
   (imperfect) advocacy of monogamy. This movie added anti-semitism to
   sexism in the list of Spike Lee's alleged crimes, because of the slimy
   portrayal of Jewish small capitalists who run the jazz club. If such
   extreme sensitivity were applied with regard to racism and sexism,
   many fewer movies would be made.