This bizarre sense of moral outrage you feel for a film you haven't seen is telling, Mr. Tea. For what it's worth, I don't recall Stalin or Mussolini or Nazis coming up in the film -- these are out-of-context accusations cobbled together and wildly thrown about by the obviously flailing Hari.
[Gavin, morality is an alien concept to Tea and his ilk]
As another commentator ironically observed, it is Hari's 'review' that is postmodernist.
[The documentary was actually released two years ago (indeed, it was discussed on this forum in the past, but then, isn't clinical amnesia fundamental to the postmodern condition?) and Hari's article hilariously features a still from the
wrong doc (from
The Pervert's Guide, released in 2006)].
Zizek,
in another very different context, said much the same about the Pope as he did about Mussolini: "
In contrast to it [Western feel-good pseudo-Buddhism] , the Pope reminds us that there is a price to pay for a proper ethical attitude. It is his very stubborn clinging to old values, his ignoring the realistic demands of our time even when the argument against it seems obvious, as is the case of the raped nun, that makes him — conditionally I use this term — great ... So I hope you got my point here. I disagree radically with the Pope."
But, alas, postmodernists never get the point.
And not surprisingly either (tying in with that other thread): Mussolini was essentially a conservative, ultra-montane Catholic, and fascism has its origins in the Catholic Church (we need not dwell here on its - Roman Empire - origins), which first proposed fascism's socio-economic structural forms in
Corporatism, later implemented in Italy - and other countries - by Mussolini.
When the figure of the evil Other (the "Jew", the "Muslim") is added, as the spectral 'obstacle' to (impossible) total phallic
jouissance, the result is such as Nazi fascism and today's corporate-global postmodern fascism (the corporate-military-industrial-governmental-entertainment complex and the "Muslim" Other) ... and this is partly why Zizek, among others, calls today's globalising 'liberal democracy' a
totalitarian ideology (as with Nazism).
[Needless to say, Zizek also wants Blair's and Bush's asses dragged before the Hague court].