Review of Born in Flames (1983) by Brandon M — 21 Jan 2009

There's a lot of ideas rattling around in Born in Flames but little precious plot to tack them to. This aggressively feminist, aggressively independent film isn't much of a "movie" it's a bunch of different scenes of women either fighting against some sort of revolution and protesting to keep their jobs and the death of one their leaders is shoddily covered up to look like a suicide leading them to resort to violence to get what they want.

But that takes up about 15 minutes of the movie. My favorite aka the worst scenes of the movie are montages of women working at their various jobs while the god-awful titular song drones on in the background- if only this was entertaining enough to be campy.