tonycb
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This is one of my guilty pleasure films. It is repeatedly laugh out loud funny. Morticia's "pastels" comment being one of my movie favourites.
The film is nominally for children but is very much a grown ups film with its sexual innuendo and knowing jokes. The movie is mostly about the conflict between Morticia, the true mother versus Jelinsky, the outsider. As all 80s and 90s films, the "family values" win. But, of course, these are not normalfamilies' values...
Not until the recent Jenna Ortega "Wednesday" has there been a version of the Addams family this clever.
The film is nominally for children but is very much a grown ups film with its sexual innuendo and knowing jokes. The movie is mostly about the conflict between Morticia, the true mother versus Jelinsky, the outsider. As all 80s and 90s films, the "family values" win. But, of course, these are not normalfamilies' values...
Not until the recent Jenna Ortega "Wednesday" has there been a version of the Addams family this clever.
Fascinating biography of Dolours Price, who was part of the first wave of the Provisional IRA in the early 1970s. It includes her now largely forgotten hunger strike in the mid-1970s, how the organisation evolved from street riots to a sophisticated guerrilla organisation and the controversies around Gerry Adams.
What's particularly good is how carefully it motivates all the characters. There is no idiotic Mel Gibson nationalism. It is clearly sympathetic to Irish republicanism, but no-one is a bond villain.
It also spends time to understand thoughtful users of violence on both sides. Frank Kitson - the leader of the british dirty war - is shown to be uncompromising and intelligent, but someone who does not like violence for its own sake. Likewise most of the IRA people.
My one irritation about the history is how little mention is made of the role of Ulster Unionists, the majority Scots-Irish population who support union with Britain. It was their domination of the police that triggered soldiers to be sent to Northern Ireland and, contrary to how it is portrayed here, it was them not the IRA who destroyed the early 1970s peace process.
What's particularly good is how carefully it motivates all the characters. There is no idiotic Mel Gibson nationalism. It is clearly sympathetic to Irish republicanism, but no-one is a bond villain.
It also spends time to understand thoughtful users of violence on both sides. Frank Kitson - the leader of the british dirty war - is shown to be uncompromising and intelligent, but someone who does not like violence for its own sake. Likewise most of the IRA people.
My one irritation about the history is how little mention is made of the role of Ulster Unionists, the majority Scots-Irish population who support union with Britain. It was their domination of the police that triggered soldiers to be sent to Northern Ireland and, contrary to how it is portrayed here, it was them not the IRA who destroyed the early 1970s peace process.
This is a classic chemical weapon turns everyone in a small town into a zombie and a few teen survivors fight back movie. With some hefty twists in having articulate zombies and political commentary. I suspect some of the poor reviews are from people who don't like, or don't get, the politics. It's a commentary on the older people who voted for Brexit and the chaos they wrought. The last episode could do with some better plot writing, but it has a satisfying end.
