It's time to take a vacation. Where to? Who with? How about if you're already on vacation and by some miracle or 'Unusual Destiny', so to speak, you find yourself on even more of a vacation? It may be that you're a lowly sailor with Communist leanings, or the wife of a wealthy man who will pontificate about the days politics and complain about the working people and how things are and... oh wait, what, what if the roles get reversed and the Communist has power over the Capitalist on a deserted island?
And what if it's a man over a woman?
Jack goes into the tank to soak up every last drop he can from Lina Wertmuller's sexy, subversive 1974 cult film SWEPT AWAY.
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(clips from Slavoj Zizek in The Pervert's Guide to Ideology (2012), music from Swept Away, and the Go-Go's 'Vacation' all via fair use)
