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International Workers' Day (Part 2)
Spoiler Warning: We spoil everything. Yes, even this.
In our second International Workers’ Day special, we dive headfirst into the accidental communist masterpiece that is Baby’s Day Out — a slapstick odyssey where the baby is the revolutionary vanguard, the kidnappers are the capitalist class, and every pratfall is a blow against the bourgeoisie.
We explore how this 1994 Patrick Read Johnson family comedy inadvertently critiques wealth, policing, and media spectacle, and why the baby’s journey through the urban jungle feels like a Marxist allegory for class consciousness crawling its way toward liberation — in footie pajamas.
This is not a joke. This is the revolution in a diaper.
#MarxistsAtTheMovies #BabysDayOut #InternationalWorkersDay #CommunistCinema
#ProletariatPower #UnintentionalCommunistMasterpiece #CineMarchMedia #MarxistFilmCriticism #WorkersUnite #LeftistPodcast #communism #socialism #patrickreadjohnson #laraflynnboyle
International Workers' Day (Part 2)
Spoiler Warning: We spoil everything. Yes, even this.
In our second International Workers’ Day special, we dive headfirst into the accidental communist masterpiece that is Baby’s Day Out — a slapstick odyssey where the baby is the revolutionary vanguard, the kidnappers are the capitalist class, and every pratfall is a blow against the bourgeoisie.
We explore how this 1994 Patrick Read Johnson family comedy inadvertently critiques wealth, policing, and media spectacle, and why the baby’s journey through the urban jungle feels like a Marxist allegory for class consciousness crawling its way toward liberation — in footie pajamas.
This is not a joke. This is the revolution in a diaper.
#MarxistsAtTheMovies #BabysDayOut #InternationalWorkersDay #CommunistCinema
#ProletariatPower #UnintentionalCommunistMasterpiece #CineMarchMedia #MarxistFilmCriticism #WorkersUnite #LeftistPodcast #communism #socialism #patrickreadjohnson #laraflynnboyle