Talk:Sweet Movie

Anarchist?
What exactly makes this movie an "anarchist film", justifying it being in that category? Murderbike (talk) 21:33, 19 December 2007 (UTC)


 * I think this film is quite anarchistic. It dismisses the post-industrial, capitalist Western world and it's mass culture, but also it's Marxist critizism and Communism in general. It's main statement is that both ideologies just make people slaves by turning them into sexual playthings and using the media to get them "enchanted". Makavejev clearly makes a quite anarchist point in suggesting that the only way to escape both "dominating systems" is getting rid of order and get back to our childhood/animal conditions. (talk) 11:52, 14 July 2008 (CET)

Fair use rationale for Image:Sweet movie.jpg
Image:Sweet movie.jpg is being used on this article. I notice the image page specifies that the image is being used under fair use but there is no explanation or rationale as to why its use in this Wikipedia article constitutes fair use. In addition to the boilerplate fair use template, you must also write out on the image description page a specific explanation or rationale for why using this image in each article is consistent with fair use.

Please go to the image description page and edit it to include a fair use rationale. Using one of the templates at Fair use rationale guideline is an easy way to insure that your image is in compliance with Wikipedia policy, but remember that you must complete the template. Do not simply insert a blank template on an image page.

If there is other fair use media, consider checking that you have specified the fair use rationale on the other images used on this page. Note that any fair use images lacking such an explanation can be deleted one week after being tagged, as described on criteria for speedy deletion. If you have any questions please ask them at the Media copyright questions page. Thank you.

BetacommandBot (talk) 07:37, 15 January 2008 (UTC)

Anarchist film category
I find the reasons given in the relevant section above quite valid. Please, discuss before removing this category again. Today people think about "anarchy" very differently from how they thought about it in 1974. I reassure you that back in the mid 70's this film was considered as anarchistic as a film could hit the screens. All of Makavejev's films have an anarchistic streak, but this one has it most pronounced. In Montenegro a woman poisons all her family in Sweden after having lived for a while with gypsies in Montenegro. In Manifesto, an anarchist woman shoots the prince, while exposing as futile the ordered resistance of the communists. In our times, it may seem that Sweet Movie is erotic as opposed to political. Today the issue of the "sexual revolution" is somewhat obsolete, especially in political ideology, but back in the late 60s and early 70s, sexual revolution was quite connected with anarchistic thought and practice, both in Europe and in the US.Hoverfish Talk

Here are a few links to demonstrate that Makavejev's films have indeed been considered as "anarchistic":

(Side by side to Themroc too) "the Yugoslavian Anarchist Film Maker Dusan Makavejev"

"Dusan Makavejev, author of subversive cinema, anarchical, and provocative"

Hoverfish Talk 20:56, 10 January 2009 (UTC)