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Topic History of: I have been reading about the film on your message board and wondered if I could present my thoughts
Max. showing the last 5 posts - (Last post first)
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Joey |
That is a very comprehensive and interesting review Anita - thank you for it.
I just went back to the site to watch it again and views appear to be escalating fast.
I have a feeling this could be very big JK. |
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Mart |
A frightening thought at the end there Anita and welcome to the board.
Should a "convicted" person ,"pay" for their "crime" with extra hours in their work for gratis, instead of crowding a prison? |
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Anita |
I do hope you put them up, I enjoy reading the thoughts presented here.
Jonathan King The Comeback? (VILE PERVERT-THE MUSICAL)
We are left a little uneasy with the title of Jonathan King's new film.
We are not sure who he trying to attack, if he is trying to attack at all, whether he is stating the facts ,or whether he is laughing with us - or at us.
I actually suspect neither.
This is the work of an entertainer, who simply knows only how to do his job and with all the public quotes and misquotes, sometimes we forget this fact.
I will personally ignore all the controversy surrounding him in this essay and go for the simple facts on an enjoyable romp of a project.
However, re-controversy, in this film, King has played the ace card in it himself in the opening minutes.
We are greeted , rather expectedly I felt, by the sight of King strolling through a park in long mac and wellies (rear view only) and the viewer laughs at the irony of the joke, but is left awestruck by the next scene in which the mac is spilled open to reveal the man naked himself as he turns round.
Credit is where credit is due, he could have chosen a body double but chose not to, and this becomes a key point of the movie.
You want to be shocked?
There's your shock, it's out of the way and we watch the man's story. (It doesn`t happen again viewers, I don't think I have given anything away there).
The songs are brilliant and they always have been, the newer ones are reasonably well known by now, totally irresistible and annoying at the same time, the fourth and fifth chords occasionally appear, but the listener tends to forgive this as many key points in King's recent and past life are told in sketch and song format, using outrageous characters portrayed by himself.
So what does he look like?
Another simple answer, completely eccentric, unique and oddly Pythonesque.
The project is filmed in a very much BBC style, albeit using current internet facilities, as is the whole promotional idea, it displays Mr King's frustration at not being a mainstream artist anymore, but, also, mocks it in a very human and, indeed, Malcolm McClaren style underground way.
We cringe at some of the characters he displays and self acts and at some of the words, but we are supposed to.
I think this will be a very well viewed film, but not an epitaph to a career.
Jonathan King is no older than Bowie or Jagger.
I hope this movie has dumped a lot of things from his system, but he has a lot of songs and projects in him still and let's hope he moves on to those.
The question that this film should be raising and which, in reading many varied reviews before writing out my essay, is - what on earth would happen if all those wrongly accused, unjustly treated, acquitted incorrectly , or simply guilty and finished their sentence, had the facilities and wherewithal to tell their own story in such a way after events have seemingly be done?
See the film, maybe the character portrayed as God in Vile Pervert has the answer. |
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