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www.iofilm.co.uk - : By 1974, Flower Power, Black Panthers, Kent State, ghetto riots, civil rights murders, anti-war marches, Yippies and university sit-ins had shaken the complacency of the chattering classes. The Symbionese Liberation Army was one more faction of the urban guerrilla alternative that attracted a handful of alienated middle-class supporters and appeared on the far left of the anarchic revolutionary movement. more...
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www.channel4.com - : A sycophantic account of the kidnapping and brainwashing of heiress Patty Hearst at the hands of an urban terrorist group, and the crimes she committed while under their control. The disturbing element of the film is not the grim opening half-hour in which we assume Patty's point of view during her alleged psychological torture, but Schrader's unquestioning acceptance of her side of the story. Even allowing for the fact that the screenplay is based on her autobiography, it avoids the awkward questions that needed to be asked regarding her complicity in the crimes. Though Richardson turns in a remarkable performance, little rings true. more...
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www.washingtonpost.com - : Then, in February 1974, after taking a shower and settling down to study in the apartment she shared with her fiance', that sense of herself came under vicious attack. As recreated in ''Patty Hearst,'' Paul Schrader's new film starring Natasha Richardson, she was abducted by members of the Symbionese Liberation Army, and, at various times over the next 19 months, jammed into a car trunk, threatened at gunpoint, sexually molested, stuffed in a closet and kept blindfolded for 57 days. Then, given the choice between being released and joining the SLA, she joined and became Tania, the revolutionary. more...
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