In my boring high school days, listening to the radio on an mp3 in the evening was one of the pastimes. At that time, there was a DJ on the local radio station, and every time he spoke in tongues or bad words from advertisers on the radio station, he was always criticized by the leaders or received complaints from listeners. While the British radio revolution has been going on for decades, the Chinese revolution has just begun, or is still gaining momentum.
The movie begins with a teenager entering a pirate radio station. The teenager smokes and takes drugs, and the pirate radio is full of sex, violence, drugs and homosexuality. No one knows why the teenager's mother didn't send him to the so-called "addiction center" but here. It's all like Alice falling down the rabbit hole and the adventure begins.
In the era when the Internet had not yet appeared and the information was not well-informed, radio had undoubtedly become a mainstream communication medium, and rock music, with its hypnotic nature, was eager to lift the rigid and serious British suits and get out of SpongeBob SquarePants' underwear. A group of bachelors (including a lesbian) set up radio DJs in an old, disconnected ship at sea, playing rock and pop 24/7. They are rewarded with rising radio ratings, a fleet of beauties willing to sacrifice their lives for DJs, and a crackdown by government officials. Clumsy government officials in rigid suits, eager to find reasons to shut down the station's uninhibited rock music and teenagers, constitute the film's main contradiction.
Someone once said that all the bands in the UK that have so many games are because the British standard of living is too good, the welfare is too good, and the teenagers have nothing to do, except for drugs and music. In the 1960s and 1970s, as the golden age, excellent bands and individuals such as beatles, pink floyd and david bowie were born. It sounds like a bit of a conflict with British gentlemanly, and I feel British gentlemanly apologizing for talking to you about porn, you want to say no, but those guys are so handsome. Rock and roll is always associated with pornography, drugs and violence, which makes people feel that those who play music are pure children, not choosing the dirty road of skill, but choosing straightforward rock music with no direct monetary reward. The later story is that people have to eat, some children gave up rock and chose a normal employment path, while others merged business with music, and rock and roll went into decline after the 1970s.
In the end, the old ship used by the pirate radio crashed into the reef to escape the government's pursuit, and the ship was about to sink because of its disrepair. Like the Titanic, the prudence of sticking to work at the last minute. When the ship was about to sink completely, everyone's last wish was why the always silent Mark had such a good luck, Mark said, "I just said 'how, then...'". Everyone heard it and aroused the desire for life, eager to try it out for themselves after being rescued. In the end, none of the heroes died, and rock was immortal.
Dedicated to the paul listening to radiohead and doing naughty things and the almighty brit-pop that I deleted from msn.
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