tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14575780.post5224655634641757189..comments2024-01-31T18:37:07.424+00:00Comments on The Agitation of the Mind: WINTER OF DISCONTENT: Kill ListNeil Fulwoodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14686296295535235988noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14575780.post-68936029273322318782013-11-27T21:47:20.454+00:002013-11-27T21:47:20.454+00:00I'm hearing you! It's perfectly possible t...I'm hearing you! It's perfectly possible to make a film about Britain that engages with what an essentially fucked up country it is (I say this as a native) and make it look like a movie and not a grim Panorama documentary from the 70s. 'The World's End' manages to do it. And yet so many British films don't. So many British films look like they should have been shot on 16mm and shown as a one-off TV drama sandwiched between 'Coronation Street' and a repeat of 'Abigail's Party'.Neil Fulwoodhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14686296295535235988noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14575780.post-71303316448686735142013-11-26T12:20:36.269+00:002013-11-26T12:20:36.269+00:00This for me like everything Wheatly has directed t...This for me like everything Wheatly has directed to date, just didn't work for me. Perhaps I just had too high hopes for it, especially considering how other people raved on about it, or maybe it just works on a level outside of my own critical thinking? <br /><br />Needless to say I wasn't exactly in a rush to rewatch it, why begging the question as to why British cinema always seems to be so obsessed with painting things as grim as possible?<br /><br />Good review Elwood Joneshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09661750406352159996noreply@blogger.com