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Man Friday (1975)
Recalled hearing of it in 1975 but saw it for the first time in July 2020
17 July 2020 - 4 out of 5 users found this review helpful.
Absent the Pandemic, this turns into a brilliant parody of post-George Floyd
America and Anarcho-Capitalism. Meant to see it at age 32 and accidentally found it on YouTube, age 82. Yea, O'Toole's slightly hammy but not gratingly. I knew of Richard Roundtree only as the Blaxpolitation-era SHAFT.
Crusoe explaining money and wages to Friday might have been lifted from a Democratic Socialists of America introduction to Karl Marx's theory of indentured labor. The Hang Glider scene doesn't work and didn't then but otherwise MAN FRIDAY has aged itself into front page 2020 relevance.
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