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Caine vs. Mutiny
Date published: 2023-10-09
Date modified: 2023-10-09
Reading time: 00:01:04
“Politically correct is the language of cowardice.”
Billy Connolly
The 1954 movie The Caine Mutiny is a masterpiece. The very intelligent dialogues and Humphrey Bogart being himself, in all his pomp and circumstance. It is the court-martial of an officer who, under extreme stress, breaks the chain of command and takes over the warship, fearing that it will sink under the senseless orders of his superior.
But its reissue, in the year 2023, is exceptional. Kiefer Sutherland is masterful in his portrayal of the paranoid and cowardly Phillip Queeg.
Almost 80 years ago, Adorno and Horkheimer wrote The Dialectic of Enlightenment. Shocked and embarrassed by the newly known results of the extermination of 6 million Jews, the philosophers try to understand -and explain- what makes homo behave like a wild beast.
At one point they speak of mediocrity, as the zeitgeist. And they say: By ratifying the demand for garbage with refined cunning, total harmony is inaugurated.
And this is exactly what director William Friedkin demonstrates, with the subtlety typical of great talents.
While the original movie is stoned -right, and wrong- its reissue is a portrait of the mediocrity that plagues the world. The court-martialed soldier is one Edward Snowden. Incompetent, and mediocre, but deeply aware of the possibility of his fifteen minutes of fame.
The lawyer defending him is an example of a brilliant brain trapped in a cowardly mind.
In the end, all we need is a scapegoat. That is the capitalist writer, portrayed as an opportunist who makes money off the misfortune of others.
If there is a fair, coherent, and impartial character, it is Luther Blakely, the president of the court. And since life imitates art, that role is played by the late Lance Reddick, who died a few months ago.
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