Ken Loach, who seems to defy the rule that you get more right-wing as you get older, used his Bafta acceptance speech last night to attack the Tories. He said that the Government would ‘have to be removed’ and went on to say:
‘In the real world, it’s getting darker. And in the struggle that’s coming between the rich and the powerful…the big corporations and the politicians that speak for them on the one hand, and the rest of us on the other the film-makers know which side they’re on.’
To be fair to voters, they seem to be quite set on removing governments, or at least overturning the status quo: first in Britain and then the United States, and this spring perhaps even in France and the Netherlands. In that existential divide, between nationalism and globalism, film-makers very much do know which side they’re on.
Last week, there was an interesting profile of another anti-establishment type, Steve Bannon, who is seen as one of the intellectuals behind the Trump regime.
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