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Films Dealing with Political Action

Films can reflect aspects of political action and suggest certain ideas about politics and political activity, though films can only hint at these realities in a dramatic form and cannot explain them fully. The films viewed all show certain important facts about political activity:

( Political activity involves the deepest needs of human beings played out in the public arena.

( Political activity involves interaction and conflict and finding ways of working through that conflict to action.

( This is a method that takes time, and some are impatient and seek extra-political means of accomplishing what they want.

( Each society is defined by the way it handles political activity and so by the way citizens interact to accomplish their goals.

Contemporary American and British societies are similar in their respect for the law and in their respect for political action, though at the same time, they show a certain cynicism about politics and politicians. This is clearly evident in The Politician's Wife and in The Enemy Within, and yet both films also show a faith in democratic institutions and a belief that in the end those institutions will win out over personal ambition and even corruption. The personal nature of politics and the law is apparent in Brotherly Love as well. Our fears of politics come to the fore in The Enemy Within and 1984, both of which suggest that we fear that there is always someone ready to wrest our political institutions form us, to turn a democracy into a nightmare. At least, that is what we fear.

Film does convey certain messages about politics, though films do not delve too deeply into these subjects as a rule. What does emerge from the medium, however, is a certain sense of the importance and vitality of democratic institutions. Films usually assume that the audience shares a certain common sense of the meaning of democracy and the meaning of politics, and they make use of this shar...

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