| RATING: | 100% |
| FORMAT: | DVD |
Not in the least dated exposé of UK industrial relations and their inevitable filtering through the British national obsession with social-class origins and their consequent (false) loyalties.
The playing of all concerned is faultless. From the smallest parts to the largest – making this that rare thing, a truly ensemble movie with no one overweening ego getting in the way of the themes explored. Peter SELLERS is particularly memorable.
The generalized parasitism of the middle class in their dependency on the lower classes to do the work they will not do - leading to a desire to keep the poor permanently separated from access to capital - is well sketched. Along with the chip on the shoulder mentality of the lower class in their desire to similarly obtain something for nothing – or, at least, for as little effort as possible.
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