The Trotsky

The Trotsky

  • Director: Jacob Tierney
  • Countries of origin: Canada
  • Language: English, French, Russian, Hebrew, German
  • Release date: May 5, 2010
  • Sound mix: Dolby SR
  • Also known as: Троцкий
  • "The Trotsky" is a comedy directed by Jacob Daniel Tierney and starring Jay Baruchel and Emily Hampshire . The film was screened at the Toronto Film Festival in Canada on September 11, 2009.
    The film tells the story that Leon, who studied at a private high school in Montreal, believes that he is the reincarnation of Trotsky, the Red October family, and believes that in this life he wants to do a revolutionary career just like his previous life.

    Details

    • Release date May 5, 2010
    • Filming locations Montréal, Québec, Canada
    • Production companies Park Ex Pictures, The Harold Greenberg Fund

    Box office

    Budget

    CA$6,400,000 (estimated)

    Movie reviews

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    • By Isac 2022-12-04 14:18:01

      The barefoot are not afraid to wear shoes

      Strange dad finally gave a red book to Strange Flower. Some people say it’s incredible. I think it’s a good time to be a dad. When the strange dad finally sends it away, it can harm others.
      Why did the brainless resistance of Qihua's son respond to so many people, because everyone is dissatisfied and needs to be expressed just for catharsis. As for the purpose of Qihua's kidnapping the principal to cause revolution, haha, what to do with them. Look at the old lawyer, the lawyer woman, and...

    • By Jennyfer 2022-12-01 12:42:52

      Revolution is not a slogan

      This movie represents the current trend of thought among young people and old urchins in Western society. Capitalists exploit workers, and the people have no say in the government system. Most people enjoy themselves, and take the initiative to hand over their rights to power and capital, but instead regard those who want to change as a laughing stock.

      How to change the status quo? This movie is actually a book for revolutionary fools. The joke is the form, the essence is to tell...

    • By Ward 2022-11-26 11:42:30

      Bored or indifferent?

      As soon
        as human society enters the first decade of the 21st century, the so-called radical revolution has already been reflected or denied by mainstream intellectuals in most corners of the world. It is also difficult for those in power and mainstream elites to have the yearning and pursuit of large-scale mass revolutions. In terms of this situation, the communist revolution has fallen into a low ebb and any existing Marxist-Leninist traditional communist social propositions, In the...

    • By Alyce 2022-11-17 23:36:46

      Those of us postmodernists must not understand.

      The film is quite interesting in some parts, which seems to be the absurdity of Don Quixote. The idea of ​​the story should be able to show the postmodern deconstruction of the revolution. At the beginning, there is a detail I don’t know if anyone has discovered that the male protagonist said that foreign workers were rejected during the demonstration. For those who are not familiar with the trade union system, this is just a trivial matter. It cannot be photographed in East Asia. For East...

    • By Lyda 2022-11-09 02:17:50

      Boredom, numbness and farce: ideal narration in the post-revolutionary era

      In one scene in the play, Leon’s "lawyer" said to the school manager standing in the police car: "For us postmodernists, the revolutionary concept is very funny."

      This sentence explains the basis of the whole film's laughter-in 21st century Canada, some people claim that Trotsky is reincarnated, so that they want to start a revolution in school. It seems that this expression has a sense of joy, and it is a time-honored sense of joy, just like seeing the knight fighting a windmill in...

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    • By Tess 2023-09-29 04:17:21

      No matter how absurd the dream is, it will be awe-inspiring if it is practically...

    • By Layne 2023-09-23 23:14:36

      A bit of a wave feeling, very...

    • By Roslyn 2023-09-14 22:02:20

      It may be that the hope is too high. This movie is really disappointing. What this type of movie needs most is wise humor and sharp irony. The film is obviously clumsy, especially after the excellent campus humorous theme of "Youth and...

    • By Duane 2023-09-10 15:11:20

      A Beautiful Spring Dream of a Canadian Communist Party...

    • By Cletus 2023-09-09 09:13:02

      Not bad, but I always feel that the director is actually a...

    Movie plot

    Leon, who studied at a private high school in Montreal, believed that he was the reincarnation of Trotsky, the Red October family, and believed that in this life he would do the same revolutionary cause as his previous life. His immediate problem is to find Lenin and an older woman who can be his wife.
    Leon organized a strike in the factory run by his father and was fined and transferred to a public school. He met an autocratic...
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    Movie quotes

    • Eli Bronstein: How does it feel making your family the biggest laughingstock of the city?

      Leon: Half the city, Eli. The French don't care.

    • David Bronstein: [Talking to Sarah] You're cheerleading? For what? For your brother being psychotic?

    • Leon: It's not over.

      Principal Berkhoff: Oh I think we both know it is.