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Life imitates art

posted 8 years ago by nedhorn
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If indeed there is only one surviving, hissy and scratchy print of this film, then this exactly imitates the end of the movie, where only one scratched film recording exists of its once mighty protagonist. In the film his history is erased because he has turned against the establishment that used him and was deemed a subversive. Which seems to have been the fate of one of the most important and subversive movies of the 1960s.

If you seriously want to understand what the 60s was about, not the woodstock nostalgia 60s, you need to see this movie. But alas that 60s is being quickly erased from memory.

[–] ib011f9545i 8 years ago

It has been on dvd/blu ray for a couple of years.
Assume it is available elsewhere as well?
Your conspiracy theory is somewhat undermined by facts.

I don't think it was as great a film as you do.

I just paid 20 pounds for the dvd and have just watched.

I saw it on the BBC sometime in the late 1970s/early 1980s.

I found it an interesting film,but I think if I ever need a nut opened with a sledgehammer I will contact the director.

I liked his Culloden,War Game and Commune but he performs the same tricks in every film of his I have seen.

Like a heavy metal band turned up to 11.

For example in this film people give nazi salutes,always a minority pastime in Britain due to our obsession with World War 2 and anti German feelings.
The hero/anti hero is a pop star but his music is weak (unlike the Beatles for example).

But is funny in 2016 to realise that the idea of a coalition government and ministry of culture were horrors that we we were expected to shudder before.

[–] christomacin (4529) 2 years ago

I have a walnut I've been having some trouble with. Do you by any chance happen to have Mr. Watkins address?