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Salient. Victoria University Student Newspaper. Volume 39, Number 18, July 26, 1976.

W.R. Mysteries of the Organism

W.R. Mysteries of the Organism

This film billed as the high point of the festival, possibly fell flat with a New Zealand audience, since we are ignorant of the theoretical discussions of the revolution, which form so much a part of the lives of people in other countries.

The film set out to deliberately criticise any point of view that is held dogmatically. Dusan Makavejev is especially critical of the way Marxism has become a religion with many people and compares what some states do with it to decadent western advertising (Ma(r)x Factor).

It is in part a response to the work of Wilhelm Reich, who for example was especially critical of the way the Russian revolution suppressed the importance of sexual freedom in its development.

It is a deliberately ambiguous film which was cleverly designed so that no one could go out of the theatre smugly confident of his or her own beliefs. Although New Zealanders I suspect, owing to their general apathy, and judging from audience reactions to many things in the film, could do that anyway.