맑스 재장전

맑스 재장전 (2011)

Marx Reloaded

현재의 전 지구적 경제위기를 이해하는데 맑스의 사상은 여전히 유효한가? "매트릭스"를 패러디한 애니메이션과 안토니오 네그리, 슬라보예 지젝 등 저명한 학자들과의 인터뷰를 통해 위기의 실체에 다가가려는 지적이고 유쾌한 시도. 파란 알약과 빨간 알약, 당신은 무엇을 집을 것인가?

개봉일
2011-04-11
TMDB
6.2 / 10 (8)
상영 시간(분)
52분
장르
다큐멘터리, 애니메이션
감독
Alexandra Weltz, Jason Barker

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Marx Reloaded is a 2011 German documentary film written and directed by the British writer and theorist Jason Barker. Featuring interviews with several well-known philosophers, the film aims to examine the relevance of Karl Marx's ideas in relation to the Great Recession. The film's title is a wordplay on The Matrix Reloaded, the sequel to The Matrix, which is parodied in the documentary.

Background

According to the film's website, "Marx Reloaded … examines the relevance of German socialist philosopher Karl Marx's ideas for understanding the global economic and financial crisis of 2008–09." The film also considers, in the context of an alleged revival of Marxist thinking, whether "communism might provide the solution to the growing economic and environmental challenges facing the planet".

In an interview with Verso Books, writer-director Jason Barker described his intention in making the film "to reload or reimagine Marx as a thinker, without the usual totalitarian moralising." Barker criticised the "cliché" according to which "Marx's diagnoses of capitalism are validated whereas his 'prescription' of communism is rubbished on the grounds that it's 'utopian'." Asked whether the renewed popularity of Marx is evidence of a return of…

In a separate interview, Barker also discussed the film's use of animation, in particular his decision to parody The Matrix, admitting that although it was an "obvious parody" and "fun to make", there was also a philosophical dimension to the animation scenes in which Marx meets Leon Trotsky and Slavoj Žižek.

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