Born in Flames is Lizzie Borden's monumental documentary-style feminist fiction film. In it, she ruminates on issues of racism, classism, sexism, and heterosexism in an alternative United States socialist 'democracy.' Directed, Written, Produced, co-lensed, and edited by Borden, Born in Flames stars Honey as Honey, Adele Bertei as Isabel, and Jean Satterfield as Adelaide Norris.
The film is set ten years after one of the most peaceful revolutions in United States history, a revolution that enabled a socialist government to rise to power. Dystopian, the film details how the government deals with a number of progressive issues - gay rights, minority rights, and gay rights (etc.). Yet, there are still problems with jobs and government preferences. In New York City, a group of women decide to organize against these perceived injustices and take the revolution farther than anyone - man or woman - could have imagined.
While Born in Flames fared well with critics (it holds a 79% approval rating on movie review aggregation site Rotten Tomatoes), it fared incredibly poorly with audiences (it holds a 58% on Rotten Tomatoes) and a few critics, one of whom - critic for A.V. Club Nathan Rabin - said the film is "Interesting as a historical curio but nearly unwatchable as entertainment."
