It's All In There (And, Yea, That Includes You)

"Always with the self, these baby-boomers, who include Mr. Edel, the director. 'This is the story of our generation,' he has said of his movie. What else would it be? But those of another generation might have a hard time understanding how the killing or kidnapping of a banker or a policeman could amount to a blow struck against imperialism even if they thought it appropriate to strike such blows.

In other words, audiences today are quite likely to notice what was not so much noticed at the time, namely that the 'revolution' doesn't make any sense. So far as we can tell, these naughty children don't even know what 'imperialism' means, apart from identifying it with anything America or Israel do -- and not with anything that the Soviet Union or China did. It is whatever they say it is. Their narcissism even extends to the deaths of the leadership -- Meinhoff first, then Baader and Ensslin -- by suicide in prison. These are the solipsist revolutionaries -- though, like Bill Ayers, they still command respect at the New York Times."

-- James Bowman, twisting the knife in a review of Uli Edel's film "The Baader Meinhof Complex (Der Baader Meinhof Komplex)" - though the creature still lives - because a little pain is better than nothing, to The American Spectator.