Movies stubbornly tell the truth, and they constantly lie.
This is, I believe, what Oscar Wilde meant when he wrote that criticism is a form of autobiography, and why Kenneth Tynan described criticism as an exercise in self-consciousness. Each of our respondents explains something about the film they chose. In doing so, they also explain something about themselves, and about the particular country they inhabit, and about the one they wished they could. Susie Linfield is a book critic for the Los Angeles Times . By compressing so many social issues and making all issues into melodrama, this becomes the ultimate political movie.