“A wrestling match, a voice-over commentary, and that’s it. And yet it is the most virulent social criticism ever heard. Here, wrestling is not seen as a sport. It is a popular ritual which solves the problems that society is unable to resolve by other means. A struggle made spectacle fizzles out. The media today understand this. If workers go on strike, all television needs to do to disarm the struggle is to dramatise the event and present it as if it were a fictional story being acted out, all wrapped up between two commercial breaks. Wrestling is the confrontation of Good and Evil. It’s also a morality play : the bad guy must lose! Evil eradicated, society goes back to normal. In military language, this is known as pacification. Social order is synonymous with justice. That said, films must be made like that. Denouncing the strategies of our class enemies can help us better defend ourselves. Yes, ‘The Struggle Continues!’ Yes, let us dare remark upon the blows inflicted upon us by our Masters, let us dare to call injustice by its name and, like Zola, take our picks and shovels, our cameras, our voices, our pens, our responsibility as free men, and write ‘I accuse’ many times over on the walls of silence”.

BOUDARD, Alphonse. "La société du spectacle", Samedi, (November 14, 1998), p. 6.