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    1. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 12 Feb 2016
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      4. The great exception is @annehelen, whose review gets at the depth & complexity of movie:http://www.buzzfeed.com/annehelenpetersen/how-the-coens-tricked-you#.jwl49XGdo4 …

      5 replies 15 retweets 67 likes
    2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 12 Feb 2016
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      5. Building on @annehelen: "Hail, Caesar!" is about Hollywood is great meaning-giving rival to religion (Catholicism) & politics (Marxism)

      2 replies 6 retweets 19 likes
    3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 12 Feb 2016
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      6. "Hail, Caesar!" is both a tribute to splendour of Golden Age Hollywood films & a critique of the studio system that created those films

      1 reply 5 retweets 15 likes
    4. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 12 Feb 2016
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      7. Film is built around a series of suggestive parallels between film industry, Catholic church & Marxist-Leninism.

      3 replies 8 retweets 17 likes
    5. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 12 Feb 2016
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      8. All three systems (Hollywood, Church, Marxist-Leninism) provide a utopian vision that helps characters find solace in troubled world.

      3 replies 6 retweets 23 likes
    6. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 12 Feb 2016
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      9. Herbert Marcuse shows up in movie, caricatured (unfairly) as dialectic-spouting sage & Soviet lackey. But his presence goes deeper.

      3 replies 3 retweets 13 likes
    7. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 12 Feb 2016
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      10. Despite caricature of Marcuse, film uses Frankfurt School analysis of centrality of mass culture in legitimating capitalism

      6 replies 5 retweets 18 likes
    8. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 12 Feb 2016
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      11. Eddie Mannix, studio fixer & main character, is Catholic but his compulsive confession going undermined by failure to admit to real sins

      1 reply 3 retweets 12 likes
    9. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 12 Feb 2016
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      12. In confession booth, Mannix penitent for smoking but not for the rough-shot, amoral behaviour he has to do to keep studio going.

      3 replies 2 retweets 8 likes
    10. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 12 Feb 2016
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      13. Mannix's true salvation comes not from participation in sacrament but making of films, a sinful act which results in visions of paradise

      3 replies 3 retweets 16 likes
      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 12 Feb 2016

      14. It's only in the movies within movies -- absurd as they sometimes are -- that characters can express hidden longings & desires.

      8:33 PM - 12 Feb 2016
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      2 replies 4 retweets 17 likes
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        2. Andrew Kahn‏Verified account @andrew_m_kahn 12 Feb 2016
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          @HeerJeet nah - escape to USSR, sodomy, child out of wedlock all happen in the frame story

          1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
        3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 12 Feb 2016
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          @andrew_m_kahn Running way to USSR, staying in closet & marrying to cover up out of wedlock birth are not examples of freedom!

          1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes
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        2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 12 Feb 2016
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          15. A few of the characters are closeted gays but their sublimated sexuality finds expression in Channing Tatum dance number.

          2 replies 3 retweets 9 likes
        3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 12 Feb 2016
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          16. Here's the Tatum dance number: key example of what is repressed by society finding expression on screenhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s3JM6DQOiKI …

          1 reply 2 retweets 8 likes
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