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.

   Swept Away (1979)

   A male Southern European follower of the Communist Party and a
   Northern European wife of a bourgeois are shipwrecked. At first
   she insults working class people, but then she becomes a slave
   to the sailor. Finally he assaults her sexually, yelling political
   statements. She discovers that rape is what she wants; she likes being
   "mastered" with reference to "primitive" impulse. The enslavement
   scenario is typical eroticizing of violent domination and other power.
   The movie makes the audience accomplices to the enjoyment of sexual
   violence. Unfortunately realistic: love of power is conflated with
   "natural" love under capitalist patriarchy, and movies like this one
   help perpetuate the problem.