The most Marxist film I've seen in a long time

Rating: Null/10 (5 August 2000)

I mean, how could Hopper and his gang be a more obvious illustration of the ruling class under capitalism, as described by the writing of Marx and Engels? After all, they do no work but live off the labor of the working class, represented by - of course! - ants. Is not the scene were Hopper turns in fury on one of his cronies - "we must never let them know how strong they are" - depictive of the fear those upper classes have that the prolateriat will come to recognize its power? And is not the "circus clique" just a stand-in for the intelligentia, whose purpose is to educate the working class how to rise up against its oppressors?

--Okay, folks. I'm having a little fun here.
Still, I doubt that this film could have been made in the early fifties, when the favorable depiction of any king of collective action was considered subversive.