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Thursday, 4 June 2015

…A Bit of Tom Jones


Also Known As:
Unknown
Version:
Language:
English…
Length:
90 minutes
Review Format:
DVD
Year:
2009
Country:
United Kingdom…
Predominant Genre:
Comedy
Director:
Peter WATKINS-HUGHES…
Outstanding Performances:
Roger EVANS… Eve MYLES… Jonathan OWEN…
Premiss:
Mysterious woman offers to sell the severed penis of Wales’ greatest vocal entertainer; believing he can make a fortune from it.
Themes:
Alienation | Emotional repression | Erotophobia | Friendship | Gynophobia | Identity | Loneliness | Love | Loyalty | Materialism | Narcissism | Nationality | Nostalgia | Original Sin | Pornography | Sadomasochism | Schizophrenia | Sex | Sexual Repression | Solipsism | The State | Stereotyping | White culture
Similar to:
Pervert! (2006)… Under Milk Wood (1973)…

Do you have the balls?

An Englishman, A Welshman & An Irishman…

Summary: Weird, imaginative, unpredictable & tasteless - but very funny.

Witty and hilarious movie about White sexuality; brimming with what-lies-beneath the placid and joyless surface of White society: A bit like a modern-day version of Under Milk Wood - but without the poetry.

The premiss is ludicrous, but reveals the stupidity of most of the characters - in the most effective way. Potshots are also taken at the alleged sexual-inadequacy of the English and the supposed criminality of the Irish, by Welshmen possessing difficulties-with-reality of their own.

Eve MYLES is brilliant as the rational girlfriend surrounded by men with limited intellects with whom she seems to be stuck. Jonathan OWEN and Roger EVANS are perfect as partners-in-crime who have no real idea what they are doing, yet seem likely to get away with it.


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