Explicit in its affirmative stance towards community insurrection when confronted by subjugation by the state's land commodification, Kaala is a brazen piece of populist political cinema. A demigod spawn of marxist historiography leads the proletarian army in this melodramatic tale of community uprising against a greedy land developer emboldened by the state - whose desire for wealth accumulation hides between the shroud of economic growth and progress. Kaala is a potent tale about the paramount nature of the social fabric of any community, exhibiting how the capitalist state fractures society through creating artificial fissures of differentiation among the populace, perhaps unintentionally being anti-authority due to the martyr mythology narrative device its construction adheres too, aligning more with Karl Polayni than the Marxist-Leninist historiography it seems to explicitly align with. To put another way, while its bombastic aesthetic designs and narrative mythological arch are explicitly populist - brazen in its communist hammer and cycle symbolism - the film manages to detach the pejorative implications of the populism due to its seemingly implicit emphasis towards personal autonomy in any social formation, aligning more with an anarchist/ancom historiography where the social fabric of a community is embedded into any economy of market exchange.
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