Title: Spiteful and small and important
Review: This movie has an awful lot of chutzpah, but does not go so far as to try to glamorize communism - at least not as it developed in the early Soviet.But communism was a hideous and genocidal ideology. And Warren Beatty needed to justify John Reed's (clearly Beatty's alter ego) attachment to it. So he gave Reed something to hate - namely his parents.Communism was as much about hatred as it was about ideology. This movie unintentionally shows that. The movie treats Reed's parents in a gratuitously ugly manner. I guess Beatty thinks that if you mock the people you hate - they somehow deserve it.I'm glad this movie was made, because this imaginary autobiography by Warren Beatty's could have been written by a whole class of people in the baby boom generation. It does not hide the hatred at its core. That's a good thing to have as part of the historical record.If he matures well, Warren Beatty will one day be embarrassed by this movie he made.
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