MOVIES VS. CAPITALISM: A Soldier’s Story (w/ Jason Myles)

On this week’s Movies vs. Capitalism, hosts Rivka Rivera and Frank Cappello are joined by musician, writer, and This Is Revolution podcast host Jason Myles. Jason joins the MVC team for a discussion about the 1984 military drama, A Soldier’s Story, which depicts a racially motivated murder at a Louisiana Army base during World War II.

As we celebrate Independence Day, the group revisits this mostly forgotten film, which portrays a starkly different U.S. Army experience prior to the military’s desegregation in 1948. They unpack how the film (based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning play A Soldier’s Play) presents the complex perspectives of the Black community on morality, respectability, and violence.

A rough transcript of the episode is available here.

For next week’s movie, MVC will be revisiting the 2000 stoner comedy Dude, Where’s My Car?

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