(3.5 stars) "The Last of England" is cinema that is meant to be experienced but it may not be for everyone...
During the 1980′s, there was a prevailing sense of anti-Thatcher that was permeating through youth culture but also among adults who have had enough of what England was becoming.
From the music of the Clash to The Smiths, to the punk music of the Sex Pistols, there was a feeling that England has gone awry and chaotic.
For filmmaker Derek Jarman, he was a man who felt that English culture was dying and he has had his feelings of the descent of English cultures as early as the 1970′s. An experimental filmmaker who wanted to inject a synergy to art cinema but also to use his films as a platform to show his fight for gay rights and homosexuality, his personal disdain towards English culture was the subject of his films.
From his 1978 film "Jubilee" featuring Queen Elizabeth I of England being transported to a wasteland, Jarman created the first punk movie. But through the '80s, Jarman felt that Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher was hurting...
The Last Of England
Seen this before many many times before so it's not new at all, not even close. I would have like more Voice Over, but that wasn't happening after 10 minutes. The overall theme is sell indulgent and boring. I waited four so long for Tilda, and then her talent is wasted in this film. I love creative art films, but this just one didn't work. Plus why do I have light up a joint, or be on acid, or whatever just to come up with some idea WTF this director is trying to say.
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