Saturday, 27 December 2014

MORRIS: A Life with Bells On


Also Known As:
Unknown
Year:
2009
Country:
United Kingdom…
Predominant Genre:
Comedy
Director:
Lucy Akhurst…
Outstanding Performances:
Ian HART… Derek JACOBI… Dominique PINON… Harriet WALTER…
Premiss:
The film follows the fortunes of an avant garde Morris team in their struggle to evolve Morris Dancing.
Themes:
Alienation | Identity | Narcissism | Nostalgia | Self-expression | Solipsism | White culture
Similar (in Plot, Theme or Style) to:
Strictly Ballroom (1992)…
Review Format:
DVD

Weird Caucasians

Superior and, ultimately, affectionate satire on Morris Dancing that overwhelms with its po-faced brilliance.

The quality of the cast is outstanding and helps the believability necessary to both take all this nonsense seriously while, simultaneously, laughing your socks off.

The movie’s only failing is that it does not fully explore - comically - the cultural emptiness and superficiality that would keep Whites Morris Dancing after the agricultural roots, meaning & purpose of such dance have long exhausted.

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Jacob Bronowski… (1908 - 74), British scientist, author. Encounter (London, July 1971).


Sleep of Reason:



The dream of reason produces monsters. Imagination deserted by reason creates impossible, useless thoughts. United with reason, imagination is the mother of all art and the source of all its beauty.



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I am human and let nothing human be alien to me.



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Führerprinzip:



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