‘Seeing Red’ portrays political ideal, dream
“Seeing Red” is appropriately subtitl
ed “stories of American Communists”
because it’s as much about the people in
volved in the movement as it is about the
movement itself.
The film chronicles the history of the
American Communist Party from its rise
during the depression through the Cold
War, McCarthyism and the death of
Stalin to the present. Filmmakers James
Klein and Julia Reichert mix old
newsreel footage with recent interviews
of longtime party members who recall
their experiences in the party.
Beginning with the rise of the party
during the depression years, Klein and
Reichert set the film by finding the roots
of the movement. Fleshed out by
engrossing interviews with party
members who remember back to those
days, we begin to see a party we really
never knew, a party of idealists looking
for genuine change at a time when
capitalism seemed to be on the skids.
The members were not just students and
radicals but laborers as well.
“Seeing Red’’ is really about the
history of a dream and the people caught
up in it. The interview subjects are
bright, funny, interesting people who
shed new light on a subject never really
understood that well. And there really is
nothing like hearing an aged
longshoreman speak in all seriousness
about his involvement in an organization
traditionally viewed as radical and
subversive.
The film doesn’t paint a totally
positive picture of the movement. It also
lays bare some of the soul searching
caused by Kruschev’s admission, in the
late 1950s, of Stalin's atrocities. There
also is a sobering clip in the introduction
where an ex-party member refuses to be
interviewed for the film because of fears
of stigma and personal recriminations.
Starts Friday at Cinema 7.
By Sean Axmaker
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