The Third Generation
Fassbinder: Romantic Anarchist (Part 2)
November 7 - 26, 2014
A razor-sharp and politically astute take on terrorism as bourgeois diversion, and on how the newest (“Third”) generation of radicals has no particular ideology, making them easy prey for exploitation by the state.
Along with Mother Küsters Goes to Heaven, perhaps the Fassbinder film most concerned with contemporary West German issues. A razor-sharp and politically astute take on terrorism as bourgeois diversion, and on how the Third Generation of radicals (following the idealists of ’68 and the Baader-Meinhof Group) has no particular ideology, making them easy prey for exploitation by the state. Eddie Constantine (who played himself in Beware of a Holy Whore) stars as an industrialist kidnapped by the Schopenhauer-spouting upper-middle-class terrorist cell, whose members don’t realize they are being set up by the authorities. Fassbinder may have been outlining the thesis of this film when he stated: “In the last analysis, terrorism is an idea generated by capitalism to justify better defense measures to safeguard capitalism.”
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