Just as I expected! It turns out that “the Red planet Mars” isn’t Red at all; it’s capitalistic. At least that’s the economic truth to be gleaned from the first Soviet science-fiction film, Aelita, about a Soviet expedition to Mars that results in uprising and revolution—workers of the galaxy, unite!—but also ends with a rededication […]
Daily Archives: August 23, 2010
Richard Wanley, assistant professor of psychology at Gotham College, worries that middle-age has dimmed his “spirit of adventure.” His wife and children out of town, he embarks on a platonic dalliance with a mysterious young woman whose portrait is displayed in the window of the shop next door to his men’s club. He thus becomes […]
