"Child 44" - Any Thoughts?

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I saw it this weekend and was particularly moved by it. The culture of lies that was in place in the Soviet union was just barbaric and Orwellian. The investigator was being hounded for simply asserting what everyone knew to be true, that there still were murders in the Soviet Union, contrary to Stalin when he said there were ‘no murders in Paradise’.

But everyone had to pretend that Stalin was correct, and the elaborate ‘talking around a subject’ that had to go on then reminds me of what we have going on in the West in the seed form of anti-hate speech laws and other thought crimes.

The movie had a small release of only 510 theaters and pulled in over $2 million, averaging what $4k per theater? Sounds like it wont last very long in the theater at all.

the-numbers.com/movie/Child-44#tab=box-office

Anyone else see it?
 
Interesting take on it. Have you seen the movie?

I read the book (and didn’t realize that there was a movie adaptation). To me, it seemed to be highlighting the goodness and compassion of Russians, but driving home the duplicity and brutality of the Soviet system.
 
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The movie had a small release of only 510 theaters and pulled in over $2 million, averaging what $4k per theater? Sounds like it wont last very long in the theater at all.

Anyone else see it?
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Never heard of it. This is a movie? :confused:
 
Maybe it’s a story of how this would have been handled by Stalin’s regime?
 
I haven’t seen the movie but I’ve read the book. It isn’t playing where I live so I wonder if it’s on limited release. I knew the movie rights were bought but I didn’t know got this far this fast.

I did read that the movie tanked at the box office and I’m curious how closely the movie follows the book. The book is always better but I was looking forward to this film. Maybe I should just see if Gorky Park in on Netflix.
 
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Interesting take on it. Have you seen the movie?

I read the book (and didn’t realize that there was a movie adaptation). To me, it seemed to be highlighting the goodness and compassion of Russians, but driving home the duplicity and brutality of the Soviet system.
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My take on seeing the movie as well. It slammed on the Communist Party, not the Russian people.
 
Yeah, we all know how Stalin would have never done any atrociously stupid things like purging his officer corps just prior to the German invasion, starve millions of peasants by stealing their grain then not letting them have any to survive, or torture Bakunin then torture his son because it was the only way to get him to ‘confess’.

We all know how Stalin would never have ordered all his troops to deploy along the border with the Germans where they would get encircled and he would NEVER tell his generals that they were wrong about the Germans launching a sneak attack, why they were ALLIES! Sober up and stop pestering us comrade was the typical response when the frontline troops started to report the German attack, IIRC.

Stalin would never have said any of the following:

“Death solves all problems - no man, no problem.”

“The death of one man is a tragedy. The death of millions is a statistic.”

“I trust no one, not even myself.”

“Gratitude is a sickness suffered by dogs.”

“Gaiety is the most outstanding feature of the Soviet Union.”

Stalin was a murderous scumbag; the most genocidal egomaniac in the history of mankind. One could not make up a plot with stated absurdities so ridiculous, cruel or evil that it might not have been said by Stalin.
 
Marxism is flawed in that it does not take into account the introduction of new technologies that start the capitalization cycle over again fresh. So we have industry A that is heavily capitalized, but we also have new industries B, C, and D that are new, not heavily capitalized and looking to hire. Thus the point of revolution never happens autonomously.

For that you have to turn to Leninism that brings in an elite cadre of trouble makers, liars, murderers and thieves. This is exemplified by the 1907 Tiflis bank robbery.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1907_Tiflis_bank_robbery

"The robbery was organized by a number of top-level Bolsheviks, including Vladimir Lenin, Joseph Stalin, Maxim Litvinov, Leonid Krasin, and Alexander Bogdanov, and executed by a gang of revolutionaries led by Stalin’s early associate Kamo. Because such activities were explicitly prohibited by the 5th Congress of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP), the robbery and the killings caused outrage within the party against the Bolsheviks (a faction within the RSDLP). As a result, Lenin and Stalin tried to distance themselves from the robbery. The events surrounding the incident and similar robberies split the Bolshevik leadership, with Lenin against Bogdanov and Krasin. Despite the success of the robbery and the large sum involved, the Bolsheviks could not use most of the large bank notes obtained from the robbery because their serial numbers were known to the police. "
About 40 people were killed in this murderous spree and another 50 injured. This is typical of the attitude of godless communist radicals.

The movie was about the communist party and how its ideology complicated life from many angles. It is not a reflection on the Russian people except for those of them that were communist murderers and liars.
 
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