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The North Star (1943)
Good Example of Hollywood Propaganda
This is a really good example of a Hollywood propaganda film based on falsehoods about WW II. Set in Ukraine in 1941. The movie was released in the US in 1943. According to this movie, Ukrainians were a cheerful happy people serving the state before the evil Nazis show up to liberate them from Bolshevism. Nazi planes attacked citizens in horse drawn carriages and even children running in the street. One of the funniest scenes to me is Ukrainians burning down their own homes and the Nazis putting out the fires. There is a chain smoking colonel (it was illegal for a German in uniform to smoke in public and smoking was strongly discouraged even in private). Completely draining the blood from Ukrainian children to use in blood transfusions (Germans would not have used blood from non-Germans in transfusions to Germans. It was viewed as a defilement of the blood.) Here is some real history.
The director of this movie, Lewis Milestone was a Jew born in Russia as Lev Milstein. The writer, Lillian Hellman was Jewish and black-listed in the 1950's for being a communist. Lillian's 2nd husband, Dashiell Hammett was also black-listed as a communist and imprisoned for contempt of court for refusing to given information to the court concerning the funding of men that wanted to overthrow the US by force and violence.
The Ukrainians struggled for independence in 1917 after the Bolsheviks killed the Tsar and seized Russia. Stalin killed 7 million Ukrainians in 1928-29 with a man-made famine called Holodomor. The truth is many Ukrainians welcomed the Nazis and saw them as their liberators. Germans were never at war against Ukrainians or even Russians despite WW II being called in Russia as "the Great Patriotic War." The Great Patriotic War is Soviet propaganda which is still repeated today. The Germans were at war against Bolshevism (which today would be called globalism/Cultural Marxism/International banking). There were also many Russians who refused to fight for Stalin. Refusing to fight would have got you shot or sent to the gulags. Thus, during just the first few months of the German advance towards Moscow 650,000 Russian soldiers were taken prisoner. Says a lot when so many surrender to the Germans rather than die for Stalin. The Waffen SS, on the other hand, would fight to the death.
It was in 1942 that the Soviet Union's top propagandist, a Jew named Ilya Ehrenburg started a hate program against Germans. It was Ilya Ehrenburg that first made the claim that 6 million Jews had died in Nazi gas chambers. In a leaflet called "Kill" he wrote: "The Germans are not human beings. From now on, the word 'German' is the most horrible curse. From now on, the word 'German' strikes us to the quick. We have nothing to discuss. We will not get excited. We will kill. If you have not killed at least one German a day, you have wasted that day ... If you cannot kill a German with a bullet, then kill him with your bayonet. If your part of the front is quiet and there is no fighting, then kill a German in the meantime ... If you have already killed a German, then kill another one - there is nothing more amusing to us than a heap of German corpses. Don't count the days, don't count the kilometers. Count only one thing: the number of Germans you have killed. Kill the Germans! ... - Kill the Germans! Kill!"
Who Killed the Electric Car? (2006)
Excellent Doc That Missed an Important Idea
I think those that hated this doc. aren't seeing the bigger picture. But then, the doc. missed an important idea too that I mention below.
It's true that if the electric car needs to be plugged in, then whatever means is used to produce the electricity may pollute the environment. But, it is possible to build electric cars with solar cells so that each car is self-energizing whenever it is in day light. Thus it produces no pollution at all, except in the manufacturing of the cars themselves.
Of course, "the system" will not go for that because it doesn't produce endless revenue / profits.
Les week-ends maléfiques du Comte Zaroff (1976)
Nice Independent Film
To the unaware and on the surface, this film may seem like a 70's exploitation film but it has deeper meanings. This film is almost unknown and has never received wide distribution. It was banned in France -- it's country of origin. It is one of the few "real" horror movies to come out of Europe.
In this film, Boris Zaroff, initially represents the new France of business and corporate take-overs but has fallen under the spell of the old world via a portrait of the dead Anne De Boisreyvault -- a former inhabitant of the château. If Boris is to be kept on the true and narrow, schooled as a true Zaroff, he must reject this misty-eyed romantic view of turn of the century France. It is no accident that the dead woman under whose spirit Zaroff has fallen was buried in 1912 -- just before the onset of the Great War -- the war that destroyed the leisured lifestyle of the aristocrats of old France.
Unknown to many is that this movie is said to be an unconscious archetype: it derives much of its power from one of Europe's oldest and most potent myths, the ancient story of The Bride of Corinth. The tale tells of a young man who visits the family of his intended. He finds the house empty and everyone seemingly gone away. He decides to stay and that night his bride visits him, only to tell him that she is already dead.
The story was first recorded in the 2nd century AD in Phlegon's Marvels. It was popularized in the 18th century by Goethe who made the woman a vampire.
In it's purest form, the story is actually about the death of the old gods, the end of nature and the triumph of the new European order -- rational, anti-pagan Christianity.
Likewise Boris falls in love with the spirit of the dead Anne De Boisreyvault -- fallen in love with the ghost of a world long gone.
The background and music fit this film well.
There is also one scene with a Negro. It's not your typical Hollywood Negro character, IE The Hero. He represents the dark unconscious mind of a white woman's unrestrained sexual drive.
Shock Waves (1977)
A Memorable Film
I first saw this film on TV on a Saturday afternoon when I was a kid. It's a great indie.
On the surface, this film looks like Nazi zombies killing off a few people who become shipwrecked. But there is more to it though I don't know if the writer intended it.
Water represents the unconscious -- there is much below the surface which we are not aware. The SS soldiers in Shock Waves have lived quietly under the water since the end of WWII. They live on in the collective unconscious of people today and will continue to live on as long as humans exist. But in Shock Waves, they start to surface -- become part of the conscious to carry on to do what must be done with a vengeance.