They can sex it up, and socialism still fails! LOL! Who choses these terrible films for Hulu? Are they card carrying Socialist Squirrels?

Firstly, Wilhelm Reich was a barmy pervert who died in prison. Like anybody infamous, you can find scads of kooks who claim he was a genius or a messiah or just about whatever you'd like. Which brings me to the kooks... man, I've seen some miserable excuses for documentary footage in my days, but some of these people's testimonials, like the deputy sheriff cum barber with his story of how Reich liked his hair combed, just serve to rob this of any real credibility. Let the look on his face @ 17:11speak for itself. Just in case you were still lending your credibility, the movie throws this one at you..... Are men from outer space already living on the planet Earth? Get the frub outta here... at least I'm laughing at this point, but for the wrong reason. Ah then there's the lovely Jackie Curtis, with her unusually large Adam's apple. You can't help but see through the political malarkey Makavejev invariably uses to disguise his aspiration to make soft-core porn, which I wouldn't hold against him if he was good at it, but he's not. Gas Pump Girls is ten times the movie this is. Embarrassingly bad.

Extremism in defense of the orgasm is no vice, and tolerance in the face of sexual repression is no virtue -- such is the p.o.v. of Dušan Makavejev's 1971 masterpiece. Part straight documentary about the life and legacy of Wilhelm Reich, part surreal (and very pointed) romantic comedy about the politics of sex, part satire of sexual mores, it's a work whose mad wit, irrepressible spirit, and deep humanity, are as fresh as ever.