Want an incendiary double feature to watch? Look no further than Punishment Park (1971) & How to Blow Up a Pipeline (2022).

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@dansteffen Loving this list! Punishment Park deserves a lot more attention, imho -- even if it is a pretty hard watch!
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#PunishmentPark, from the anarchist filmmaker #PeterWatkins, and #Salo, the infamous #Pasolini film, are absolutely essential viewing for critical perspectives on the state, hierarchy, authoritarian brutality, carceral systems and the fundamental pathology of the state in general. What's truly striking is you can pull stills from each film and the images are almost identical. It may be there's a way to represent the state's brutality visually, I mean a rock-bottom way. Or it simply could be that Pasolini was influenced by Watkins' visual representation of this brutality. At any rate, both films are documents of why people talk about abolishing the state and all it contains. They aren't "entertaining" in any casual sense. But you can't take your eyes off them, and you shouldn't.