Born in Flames (1983)★ 6.1/10

For a while I wasn’t even sure whether it was meant to be sci-fi. If it’s supposed to be realistic, then the staged scenes are far too obvious. It doesn’t hold up as quality cinema, but its core message deserves some credit, which adds a few points to an otherwise underwhelming experience.

Utterly unimaginative, bland and way too long. Lots of talks and discussions and declarations but very few depictions of actual actions and counteractions and their consequences, so the whole thing feels like a dry dissertation rather than anything remotely resembling tangible characters and events that are connectable and worth investing in. And I do not understand the need to construct a fake social democracy/socialism regime in order to critique how gender politics is subsumed by a class one, you can literally do documentary on how within actual leftist groups and movements women are systemically disadvantaged and it would be much more grounded and relatable.