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Better Left Unsaid
Canada / Australia 2021
produced by Desh Amila, Sebastian Jaimungal (executive), Peter Cooper (executive), Joshua Lisec (executive) for This is 42, Documentary Australia Foundation
directed by Curt Jaimungal
starring Curt Jaimungal, Coleman Hughes, Daniel Bonevac, David Haskell, Mark Mercer, Stephen Hicks, Ilana Redstone, James Lindsay, Janice Fiamengo, John Vervaeke, Steven Pinker, Jonathan Pageau, Noam Chomsky, Robert Latham, David Sloan Wilson, Michael Chermer, Zach Steen (voiceover), Michael Wixton (voiceover)
written by Curt Jaimungal
documentary
review by Mike Haberfelner
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Now the central thesis of this film is that the extreme left just
blatantly overshoots in its demands for equalitiy, demanding it even at
the cost of individuality, while using this quest for equality to suppress
freedom of speech and at times even to abandon reason. And from this
claim, writer/director/presenter takes us to the terror regimes of the
Soviet Union, China and Cuba, making a very direct link - before admitting
to similar terror regimes on behalf of the far right ... and this is where
this documentary (and I'm losing the term loosely here as its reasoning is
very biased) falls rather flat as while it condemns all terror regimes
equally, it puts left and right wing terror regimes next to each other
without making any connections in terms of methods and even ideology.
Instead it takes its shots squarely towards the left by freely using the
s-word without even acknowledging that some socialist concepts (not
socialism or Marxism as a whole) have been successfully integrated into
Western democracies. That said, I fully agree that the extreme left at
times comes up with crazy ideas and is not always open for debate, and yet
this film does little to debunk these ideas or at least present counter
arguments that have more than anecdotal value, instead it seems the
craziest ideas of the far left (which do not at all represent "the
left" in general) do dismiss them for effect - which is something of
a pity, as this film shows much level-headed intelligence and a healthy
distance from both the far left and the far right, it just falls short of
convincingly making its points.
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review © by Mike Haberfelner
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