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.

   Sliver (1993)

   Sliver's parasitical yuppies become addicted to voyeurism as they
   might to narcotics, after a young millionaire installs a $6 million
   surveillance system in the apartment building he owns so he can view
   and tape every room in every apartment. Watching people bathe, fuck,
   fight, rape or kill eases the bland emptiness of their bourgeois
   existence. In the end the movie is supposed to on one hand preach
   against the postmodern worship of surface existence, symbolized by
   the video voyeurism, while of course selling that very sex-voyeurism
   that Amerikans crave. The Big Brother element just adds to the
   power-erotic images, offering the added fun of imagining being the
   object of pornography even alone at home, masturbating in the tub.