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Day 134: Mr. Jones

What I'm watching today

Mr. Jones (2020, Google Play streaming) - This is a movie with a powerful message about the horrific conditions that Stalin imposed on Ukraine in order to prevent the Great Depression of the 1930s from affecting Moscow. In effect, Stalin starved Ukraine to feed Moscow, and millions of people died because of it. The movie follows titular Mr. Jones former foreign advisor to the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom as he secretly travels into Ukraine to retrace his mother's steps as a teacher in Ukraine 20 years prior. Jones accidentally discovers the atrocities and then attempts to document them and alert the rest of the world. Unfortunately the world didn't want to know the truth about Ukraine and instead of heeding Jones' warnings and intervening, the British government and press launch a campaign to discredit Jones. This movie is dark but necessary. At the same time, the film waters down some of the horrific and violent scenes. Sure there are truly horrifying moments: children everywhere left to fend for themselves, mystery meat, collectors of the dead throwing a living baby with no chance of living onto the heap of corpses, and so on. This is a good but not great movie that needed to be made a generation ago.

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