It’s All Gone Pete Tong (2004)

RATING:	60%
FORMAT:	DVD

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Narcissistic, depressing and self-indulgent White movie about narcissistic, depressing and self-indulgent White people for narcissistic, depressing and self-indulgent White people.

Whites are unwilling to satirise their own culture in any profound way, for fear of being cut adrift from it and not being accepted by others, so offer only gruel in place of explanation as to why White culture is as empty as it is.

The movie should have spent more time with the problem and its acceptance and far less time with the problem. Something of a wasted dramatic opportunity - despite the very good cast - since the change from child to man is weakly dramatized in a movie with a great idea but mediocre execution. Nowhere near as good as David Essex’s Stardust.

This movie is not terribly funny nor very moving because there is no real insight into the people depicted - not even into deafness - so there is nothing for an audience to become emotionally-involved with. And like a joke with a predictable punchline, one longs for it to end.

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