reken fromy Ringe taken American socialist paper Militant.
shortcomings, artistically or political. ly. Reds towers over the average commercial film and is definitely worth seeing We see the indispensable ingredient of authentic revolution the masses of people intervening decisively in the historical process.
But the film also highlights Reed's eventful Reting yed national putting spotlight on the Paterson, New Jersey. silk strike 913. He told the story of Pancho Villa's Mexican sueras, ana reported on the Ludlow, Colorado, mine strike where workers were massacred.
Reds features exciting scenes of Reed as a fighter against World War 1, and then as he plunges into the Russian revolution and its And with all this. his tempestuous relationship with Louise Bryant. That relationship major theme of Reds In Petrograd Reed witnessed the tumultuous days leading to the formation of the revolutionary government. He reported the revolution brilliantly and was won to it totally.
Reds captures some of the drama of Reed's return the UNITED States in 1918 to tell the story of the Russian TEVOLTON first hand. On his return he wrote numerous articles and spoke many meetings.
Then, after winning back notes GanG documents confiscated by the U.S. government on nis return nere. he wrote the classic Ten Days that Shook the World Lenin wrote a foreward to Ten Days in which he said "Unreservedly do i recommend the workers of the world. Here is a book which I should like to see published in millions LOT copies and translated IntO all languages.
John Reed did more than write an important book Reds recounts with limited success the important chapter Reed's life when he plunged into the working building a party in the USA that would seek to follow the path charted by the Russian revolution.
On his 1920 Reed was buried in Red Square only American so honoured.
But there are also parts of Reds that can be and have been construed as anti-communist.
Beatty co-writer Trevor Griffiths appear to have stumbled, wittingly or unwittingly, into a campaign that has persisted for some sixty years by renegades trom comclaim Reed as their own: COUCHSO determined to people who declare that Reed became disillusioned with the revolution and died a trapped dissident.
But the "evidence" that Reed died disillusioned is based almost exclusively on what lawyers would describe as hearsay sometimestwo and three-times removed. There is not a word in Reed's writings confirm this. Quite the op posite.
I think a study of the available record confirms what Hugo Gellert, an early communist, recalls Reed saying to him on his first return from revolutionary Russia. As the final film credits are being shown on the screen, Gellert is heard sayn Grand things are ahead, worth living and dying for." He always said that. 021-643 5904.
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