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.

   Strictly Ballroom (1993)

   Australian spoof on mainstream conformist culture, focusing on a small
   Australian town where everyone dances.  Potential Pan-Pacific Ballroom
   champion gets bored with ballroom dancing and starts doing his own
   thing. In the end everyone unites behind the individualist dancer and
   his equally non-conformist and heroic partner to overthrow the corrupt
   chairman of the dance committee and live happily ever after--dancing
   as they want to dance.  Devoid of revolutionary content, Strictly
   Ballroom still makes a good statement about how silly mainstream
   culture and values can be. But stripped to its bones, this movie is
   an individualist dream.