33. It's no accident that Catholic Church took lead in trying to regulate Hollywood: they knew a rival when they saw one.
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34. To return to Marxism: thematically the film is a sequel to "Barton Fink." Both are Shachtmanite critiques of the popular front.
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35. For Shachtmanites & Trotskyist in general, Popular Front was false-radicalism in the service of sentimentality & Stalinism.
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36. Barton Fink embodies Popular Front sentimentality about common man & socialist realism & HC screenwriters are Stalinists.
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37. Worth remembering Coen's have abiding interest in failures & defeats of American left: https://storify.com/miniver/the-coen-brothers-and-the-defeat-of-the-american-l …
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38. The betrayal of Stalinism lurks behind "Hail, Caesar!" (Again, title is relevant). Final music in movie is Red Army choir.
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39. In "Hail, Caesar!" religion offers shallow consolation & Marxism betrayed by Stalin. All we have left is Hollywood.
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40. In conclusion: "Hail, Caesar!" is not minor Coen Bros. It's a profound film, whose stature will rise upon repeated viewings.
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41. PS. Almost all Coen Bros. movies defeat reviewers because films reveal themselves only after being lived with and re-watched.
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@RobertFiore1 I thought Fiennes is supposed to be George Cukor.
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