- Also known as:
- Pirate Radio; Good Morning England; Radio Rock Revolution; Rock Wave; I Love Radio Rock
- Rating:
- 40%
- Format:
- DVD
- Year:
- 2009
- Predominant Genre:
- Comedy
- Plot:
- Broadcasting without a license.
- Themes:
- Self-expression | Identity
- Similar Titles:
- Unknown
- Best Performances:
- None
[Pirate Radio]
Amusing little film about the White estrangement from their own emotions, in particular, and the boredom inherent in White culture, in general.
The BBC’s previous failure to broadcast Black popular music (even that performed by Whites) is criticized by half the UK population in the Sixties by their listening to the music they prefer on pirate radio; in lieu of any decent White popular music to listen to.
Although funny, the movie pretends Whites are more enlightened today - without evidence - and it does not try to explain why Whites are peculiar in being so frightened of themselves.
White governments are shown here as being obsessed with controlling their populations as if to not do so would cause the end of Western civilization as they know it - and want it kept. This would have been a funnier film if this had been more fully explored as a theme.
The so-called Sixties’ Sexual Revolution (that only tried to benefit male sexists) is also an implicit theme, but is never explored in any real depth. Nor is the fact that Swinging London was a myth created by a people living in a country paralyzed by the failure of its Empire; not knowing what to do next other than look backwards historically.
Despite mimicking films of the period (& utilizing some excellent popular music - but no Beatles!?), this movie does not really conjure-up the period because it was made by people who were not there at the time.
This movie might have been better as a musical, given that none of the characters is particularly likable and so we can feel no identification with any of them. It is, in fact, hard to see what this film is really all about - nor whom could be the audience for its essential emptiness. Although it contains amusing character vignettes, these do not add-up to compelling drama nor comedy - just a patchwork of loosely-connected bits and off-cuts.
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