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You can also get a glimpse of Slovenian society, their take on all this. The truth about Laibach is always a bit polemical. You see (in the movie) the apparachiks of the Yugoslav state interviewing a very young Laibach, and them dismissing them as a dangerous, I don't know, CharlesMansonesque cult. Then, you see a Yugoslav intellectual deconstructing Laibach and revealing it as the anti-totalitarian critique that it is. In the West, we have not had to live through socialist totalitarianism, although many of us are familiar with socialist utopianism. Laibach is the death knell of socialist utopianism. Once you get over the shock value, Laibach is just great fun. This is a video to laugh over. I would not want to underemphasize the political and social significance of Laibach. And the irony-challenged should stay away. But this movie is as funny today as when it first came out some eight years ago. |