The 10 Best Libertarian Movies – Noteworthy - The Journal Blog - David Boaz:
February 22, 2019 - "Plenty of movies depict individualism, enterprise, anti-totalitarianism, freedom, and social tolerance. The challenge is picking a Top 10 out of all the choices....
"The Man in the White Suit (1951) A shy scientist played by Alec Guinness invents a cloth that will never wear out and won’t get dirty.... But then the other mill owners, and the unions, realize that its production would mean that people won’t need to buy many clothes.... They join forces to protect their positions and block progress. A metaphor for so much of political activity aimed at stopping innovation, creative destruction, and improved living conditions....
"My Beautiful Laundrette (1985).... Hanif Kureishi thought he was making a savage indictment of Thatcherite capitalism. But to me, the good characters in the movie — white and Pakistani, gay and straight — are the ones who work for a living, and the bad characters are clearly the layabout socialist ... and the British thugs who try to intimidate the young Pakistani businessman. My favorite line:.... 'I’m a professional businessman, not a professional Pakistani. There is no question of race in the new enterprise culture.' I think Kureishi thinks that’s a bad attitude. The joke’s on him.
"Pacific Heights (1990).... "A young couple buys a big house in San Francisco and rents an apartment to a young man. He never pays them, and they can’t get him out, and then things get really scary.... Cato published William Tucker’s book Rent Control, Zoning, and Affordable Housing, and I asked Pacific Heights director John Schlesinger for a jacket blurb, he readily agreed to say 'If you thought Pacific Heights was fiction, you need to read this book'....
"The Palermo Connection (1990).... New York city councilman Jim Belushi runs for mayor on a platform to legalize drugs and take the profits out of the drug trade. The Mafia isn’t happy. His life is threatened. So he decides to go on a honeymoon, in the middle of his campaign — to Sicily....
Shenandoah (1965). Some have called it the best libertarian film Hollywood ever made. James Stewart is a Virginia farmer who wants to stay out of the Civil War. Not our fight, he tells his sons. He refuses to let the state take his sons, or his horses, for war. Inevitably, though, his family is drawn into the war raging around them, with tragic results....
"Miss Liberty’s Film and Documentary World offers a somewhat different Top 25 here. Libertarians might also find helpful this warning from the Guardian: 'The Giver, Divergent and the Hunger Games trilogy are, whether intentionally or not, substantial attacks on many of the foundational projects and aims of the left: big government, the welfare state, progress, social planning and equality.”
Read Part I here.
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February 22, 2019 - "Plenty of movies depict individualism, enterprise, anti-totalitarianism, freedom, and social tolerance. The challenge is picking a Top 10 out of all the choices....
"The Man in the White Suit (1951) A shy scientist played by Alec Guinness invents a cloth that will never wear out and won’t get dirty.... But then the other mill owners, and the unions, realize that its production would mean that people won’t need to buy many clothes.... They join forces to protect their positions and block progress. A metaphor for so much of political activity aimed at stopping innovation, creative destruction, and improved living conditions....
"My Beautiful Laundrette (1985).... Hanif Kureishi thought he was making a savage indictment of Thatcherite capitalism. But to me, the good characters in the movie — white and Pakistani, gay and straight — are the ones who work for a living, and the bad characters are clearly the layabout socialist ... and the British thugs who try to intimidate the young Pakistani businessman. My favorite line:.... 'I’m a professional businessman, not a professional Pakistani. There is no question of race in the new enterprise culture.' I think Kureishi thinks that’s a bad attitude. The joke’s on him.
"Pacific Heights (1990).... "A young couple buys a big house in San Francisco and rents an apartment to a young man. He never pays them, and they can’t get him out, and then things get really scary.... Cato published William Tucker’s book Rent Control, Zoning, and Affordable Housing, and I asked Pacific Heights director John Schlesinger for a jacket blurb, he readily agreed to say 'If you thought Pacific Heights was fiction, you need to read this book'....
"The Palermo Connection (1990).... New York city councilman Jim Belushi runs for mayor on a platform to legalize drugs and take the profits out of the drug trade. The Mafia isn’t happy. His life is threatened. So he decides to go on a honeymoon, in the middle of his campaign — to Sicily....
Shenandoah (1965). Some have called it the best libertarian film Hollywood ever made. James Stewart is a Virginia farmer who wants to stay out of the Civil War. Not our fight, he tells his sons. He refuses to let the state take his sons, or his horses, for war. Inevitably, though, his family is drawn into the war raging around them, with tragic results....
"Miss Liberty’s Film and Documentary World offers a somewhat different Top 25 here. Libertarians might also find helpful this warning from the Guardian: 'The Giver, Divergent and the Hunger Games trilogy are, whether intentionally or not, substantial attacks on many of the foundational projects and aims of the left: big government, the welfare state, progress, social planning and equality.”
Read Part I here.
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