https://vo.rs/tags/political-satire/Latest from the Political-Satire desk at vo.rs.Hugo -- gohugo.ioenThis work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.Sun, 28 Jan 2024 11:00:00 +0000https://vo.rs/screen/sweet-movie-makavejevs-deliberately-unwatchable-satire/<p>Some films are difficult by accident. Dušan Makavejev&rsquo;s <em>Sweet Movie</em> (1974) is difficult on purpose, engineered scene by scene to break down any comfortable position the viewer might try to hold. It is a satire that swings at capitalism and communism with the same fist, and it deploys the full arsenal of transgression — bodily fluids, real documentary atrocity footage, deliberately revolting communal rituals — to make sure nobody leaves feeling reassured about anything. It got the Yugoslav director exiled from his own cinema and banned in multiple countries, and it remains one of the most genuinely confrontational films ever released into commercial distribution.</p>Sun, 28 Jan 2024 11:00:00 +0000