O my orphaned blog. November went by surprisingly fast and I am thankful for that. Of course I saw films, many, but I would have liked to see even more. But time and energy are limited.
So where to start my backlog? I think, today I want to write about Naked. I saw this already some time ago and I am re-viewing it now.
Everybody says that this is an eminent film. But it's also extremely hard to watch. There is bleak all around and misery. The intellectuals say it is a fascinating portrait of British post-Thatcher society. Anything can reflect that society. even a film like Lake Eden can be made a political movie.
How does Naked work as a movie? How do I feel about it out of the context of the beginning of the 90s in the last century?
First of all, the acting is quite superb. Johnny is a thoroughly unsympathetic character, verbose and abusive, a rapist - and a character who would have become a loser even without Thatcher.
To me this is a period movie; maybe it had a certain impact when it was published, but what does it have to say now, after 22 years. Most of al we learn, that some people then were bastards without future. So what?
4/10
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| Misery, Misery, Misery |
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| The yuppie of the set |
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| More misery |
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| The yuppie is a bit like British Psycho |
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| Let's have a look at a self-contented bastard |
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| Still more misery |
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| Evenmore misery |
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| Limping misery |
