The new movie is based on a nonfiction book—and it leaves out the most important points.
But this is not a “watch the movie, skip the book” situation. This is a heist movie, after all—dialogue is scarce. Instead, the movie delivers explosions and suspense: bomb-making and bomb-planting are inherently dicey, and the ever-present question “Which one of y’all will rat?” was delightfully uncomfortable. While Malm offers up violence against property as one tactic among many, the movie seems to dismiss anything short of property destruction.
“They’re gonna call us terrorists because we’re doing terrorism,” Xochitl’s friend Theo observes casually, as the group kicks back after a long day of bomb-making. No one in the group on screen vehemently disagrees. But Malm does.“In a political climate still haunted by al-Qaeda and Daesh, it would be catastrophic for the movement if any part of it used terrorism,” writes Malm.
I was surprised when Theo self-identified as a terrorist. In the group’s winding, late-night debate, I was more surprised that not one of her co-conspirators nodded to what might be their actual legal defense under U.S. law: that property damage is only technically terrorism if you are trying to influence the state; they were just trying to influence markets.
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