This Charming Man: Morrissey and the Anti-Communist Film Festival

<![CDATA[    In the new film After the Hunt, there is an interesting scene that reveals how tyrants are intimidated by music. The setting is Yale University in 2019. Two academics, Alma Imhoff (Julia Roberts) and her friend Kim (Chloe Sevigny), are sitting in a bar when a song by the Smiths, “Heaven Knows I’m Miserable Now,” plays over the jukebox. The women express surprise. “Wait,” Kim says, “they’re playing that here?”]]>