Russia's Communist Party is pissed off because the villain in the new Indiana Jones movie is Communists. I don't have a problem with them being mad if the aim of the film were to actually be an anticommunist propaganda piece. They should have watched the first three movies. It doesn't show the Nazis in a positive light at all. But it doesn't have to. It's not a historical move, it's a fantasy. The Lost Ark of the Covenant, Fortune and Glory, the Holy Grail, and inter-dimensional beings? I'm glad that Indiana Jones is realistic. He actually didn't make any claims about the evils of communism at all. (Brief note: I don't think communism is evil) A very common theme in the first three was how evil the Nazis were. The negative light shown on Communism in the newest film is actually a portrayal of the atmosphere of fear-mongering in mid-50's America. Indy couldn't even make any snide remarks about the so-called leader of the Communist leader, Stalin, because he died four years before the movie was set.
Why can't people just let a movie be a movie?
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