(Boris Johnson’s actor looks too much...spray)
Watching this film is actually quite disillusion, the most impressive is a statistic: 11%. The determined remain faction only accounts for 11%. Most of them are young and well-educated. Because we are all similar people around us, they are completely unaware of their privileges. Last year, my friend mentioned that “people” attacked Boris Johnson; “people” voted for Brexit, but who are the people? Do they really have this ability and vision?) Recently I talked to a friend that London is such a bubble. Most people around us are liberal, labour-voters, working in the creative industry, let us mistakenly think that this is the majority. But in fact, this is not the case outside of London. Just like the moment when Rory was awakened in the film, "this is who we (actually) are": The so-called British Empire has long gone. As David Hare said, this country has become a small isolated island. . never liberal-minded and sophisticated enough: the prejudice against Windrush generation has shifted to the prejudice against Turkey (a woman said "millions of Turks are gonna come in, that's terrifying" I really laughed, and my thinking has not changed like the 60s …) In addition, the Brexit faction keeps proclaiming Take back control, "the nostalgia for the past". In fact, if you think about it carefully, what does control & past mean? The past of imperialism, colonialism, racism (and therefore superior), but they never explain it clearly.
Going back to the script itself, I remembered that the first draft of the script was leaked and was said to be bad James Graham had to tweet for clarification. This book is really not easy to write on my brother (but considering that he is indeed the hottest political playwright at the moment— Last year, three plays were performed in the West End...), especially scene dialogues with more than three people feel buoyant, but the character of Dominic Cummings can be shaped very well, especially for the single-player lines, the little brother’s skills are revealed. In the end, Dom's speech on current malpractices was too fond of it, and it was too good, so I took the clip:
"There's a system's failure across the country and across the west: we are languishing, we're drifting without a vision or a purpose."
"...The same politics of short-termism and self-serving, small-thinking bullshit."
"...The culture of half-truth, easy answers, false promises"
In fact, it is very sad after reading. Nowadays politics are so polarized, where will they go?
There's no choice between a better future or a worse future, there's only the choice between a worse future and an even worse one, just like a choice between bad deal or no deal...
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