#1936-olympics

#1936-olympics

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Olympia, Leni Riefenstahl's four-hour 1938 documentary-a purported masterpiece on the Berlin Olympic Games-is impossible to get through in its entirety. You can't do it, not without several thumb leans on "Fast-Forward" to skip the dull parts. Her work has that in common with porn. It shares lots of the same characteristics, actually: an obsession with slick, perfect athletic bodies; monotony; repetitive floggings; manipulated states of arousal.