Very powerful fictionalized treatment of the far-left German group who decided to use violence to fight against the machine to stop its violence-for-profit scheme in Viet Nam and elsewhere. These folks have been relentlessly demonized by the media for decades...it was refreshing to have a clear-eyed treatment of who they were, what they thought, what their aims were, their tactics and their eventual demise and complete failure.
If you directly oppose the criminal state they will use whatever means at their disposal to crush you. cf. The so-called Symbionese Liberation Army.
One of the characters in the film says...These people make decisions that result in the suffering and death of thousands but they are shocked when violence is used against them in their own homes.
Twas ever thus.
This film tapped into a deep well of anger I have from that time wrapped in the sad understanding that things have gotten worse, much worse since then.
An important film that will get no exposure in this country. So it goes.
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