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Naked by Mike Lee
Icie 2022-03-20 09:02:16
We can think of the film as the director's adaptation of the ancient Greek tragedy "The Odyssey", which puts the Odyssey's home journey into modern times. Or in a more direct way, we can think of the film as an adaptation of Joyce's novel Ulysses, but in London. The protagonist, johnny, is a cynical cynic with a pessimistic and gloomy outlook on life and the world. He walks the streets of London, preaching his pessimistic and misanthropic philosophies to the people he meets and constantly citing ancient The puzzling remarks of Greek tragedy, Freud, religious studies, technological alienation, etc. At the same time, the director expresses the self-destructive nature behind the "sexual liberation" of modern society through "rape" (or rather aggressive and hurtful sex). If you're familiar with Mike Lee's peaceful but slightly melancholy middle-class family in "Secrets and Lies," this film exposes its hidden darkness directly to you. Compared with the director Ken Lodge, who also came from England, Mike Lee has no sympathy for the proletariat. His pessimism comes from the entire modern society, and the proletariat is also the persecutor and the persecuted.
Extended Reading
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Johnny: [repeated Line] Are ya with me?
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Johnny: It's funny bein' inside 'int it? 'Cos when ya are inside, yer still actually outside aren't ya. And then you can say when you're outisde, you're inside because you're always inside yer head. Do you follow that?