All Films Are Political

The entire collection for your LISTENING enjoyment.

the cracks aren’t just where the light gets in, but also where things start to grow

Consider this my first podcast. I hope you don’t mind that I don’t read it myself. I’ll try that sometime later. For now, you should try out the listening tool that Substack offers in the app. Give it all a listen, won’t you?

At the top of the year, I shared a thought. Perhaps it is one you’ve had yourself. All films are political. It was a wee bit too much for a single post. So I broke it up. Yet, I think it reads better in one sitting than four. And now that Substack has this audio setting where a not-so-mechanical voice for give it a read for you as you drive to work, I thought a few of you might like to have it collected in one place.

If you still need them broken up, I have that for you too:

All Films Are Political, Pt 1

All Films Are Political, Pt 2

All Films Are Political, Pt 3

All films are political, Part 4

But here’s the full essay, with the original bridges removed for easier consumption. Let’s begin shall we?

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ALL FILMS ARE POLITICAL

“Society cannot share a common communication system so long as it is split into warring classes. Thus, for art to be 'unpolitical' means only to ally itself with the 'ruling' group.” — Bertolt Brecht