Film, therefore, is part of society, not distant from it, easy to experience for people regardless of class.
Terrorism is in good part an effective government propaganda; it serves to deflect attention from governmental abuse toward a mostly imagined, highly dangerous outside enemy.
Today the family is being attacked and defended with equal vehemence.
Film then does not promote socialist revolution in any consistent way.
So begins a question which has of late become more and more urgent: what is the relation of aesthetics to politics?