Directed by Canadian provocateur Bruce LaBruce The Raspberry Reich
The film’s ultimate question is whether revolution is possible without the abolition of sexual shame. LaBruce argues that the left has historically failed because it remains sexually repressed. He lampoons the "straight" radicals of the 1970s—men who blew up banks but went home to their wives and 2.5 children. By contrast, his characters are trying to live the revolution 24/7, which inevitably leads to jealousy, chafing, and absurd infighting. The Raspberry Reich -2004-
Tactics: Gudrun forces her male comrades—most of whom identify as heterosexual—to engage in homosexual acts as a way to "deconstruct the bourgeois construct of sexual identity" and prove their devotion to the cause. Directed by Canadian provocateur Bruce LaBruce The Raspberry
The story follows a group of middle-class German radicals who model themselves after the Baader-Meinhof Group (Red Army Faction). Led by the domineering Gudrun, the group kidnaps the son of a wealthy industrialist. However, instead of traditional political action, Gudrun forces the heterosexual male members of her cell to engage in homosexual acts, arguing that "monogamy is bourgeois" and that the "heterosexual world" must be dismantled to achieve a true revolution. Key Themes and Style Format: Shot on digital video (early 2000s DV
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