In the last issue of a local island publication where I live, a promotional preview of the annual film festival was headlined, “Don’t Look Away from Rising Autocracy.” The very word “autocracy” gives the game away, since like “fascist” and “far right” it signals a targeting of indefensible evil, the antithesis of “our democracy.” Indeed, one film’s blur…
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