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Marx Reloaded
Marx Reloaded is a 2011 German documentary film written and directed by the British writer and theorist Jason Barker. Featuring interviews with several well-known philosophers, the film aims to examine the relevance of Karl Marx's ideas in relation to the Great Recession. The film's title is a wordplay on "The Matrix Reloaded", the sequel to "The Matrix", which is parodied in the documentary.
Background.
According to the film's website, ""Marx Reloaded" … examines the relevance
End", "La Chinoise" and "Tout va bien".
In the 1970s the Serbian director Dušan Makavejev made films which were critical and/or satirical of Marx and Marxist ideology.
The Young Karl Marx by the Haitian director Raoul Peck released in 2017 traces events in the life of young Marx in the 1840s until the writing of Communist Manifesto and has been positively reviewed by Peter Bradshaw who thought the film absorbing.
The 2011 documentary film "Marx Reloaded" combines a Marxian analysis of economic crisis with satirical animation