MIM Movie Review

This is an archive of the former website of the Maoist Internationalist Movement, which was run by the now defunct Maoist Internationalist Party - Amerika. The MIM now consists of many independent cells, many of which have their own indendendent organs both online and off. MIM(Prisons) serves these documents as a service to and reference for the anti-imperialist movement worldwide.

   Alien3 (1992)

   In terms of a correct assessment of friends and enemies in advanced
   monopoly capitalism, Alien3 is pretty much right on. The Company
   controls state power and all of human society's capital.  Planets are
   exploited for their natural resources, prisoners are forced to labor
   for free. On the side of the people, Sigourney Weaver, strong female
   lead looking very androgynous with her shaved head and no sex-symbol
   aura in sight, we well-organized prisoners. Still, it's a Hollywood
   movie. There is the mandatory Hollywood emphasis on romance,
   chase scenes and meaningless violence. The basic contradictions
   of imperialism underlying the plot also undermine its triumphant
   ending. Weaver and the prisoners are martyrs to the cause, and the
   Company has been defeated in one battle, but with no organization to
   carry on the fight, the oppressed of this future world, like those
   of today, are still at risk.