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I've never heard of it been banned at any point in time. Even when it came out, it passed the British censors uncut.
Erm, yes.
Absolutely
Without Britain, no industrial revolution, you've benefitted from Britain's slavery. Sorry if you hate that fact.
Nice way of skirming around the fact that you don't really avoid Chinese products though.
I don't pray because there's no such thing as God. I accept the world for what it is. A world full of hypocrites including you and me.
Liar. It's impossible to avoid Chinese products. They're everywhere.
You can only post via phone, computer or laptop, you know things made in China or at the very least a lot of the components in said devices were, which means you're benefitting from slavery right now. Are you going to send your thoughts to the slaves in China?
It's in my top 10.
Connery and Caine's real life friendship oozing out of the screen, action, adventure, humour, drama... what's not to like?
Yes, I always liked her. Some porn stars spend most of their life in the business, and some just get tired of it.
Good luck to her.
One of his best performances.
The Man Who Would Be King
Last Crusade is a close second.
Every country in the world right now is benefitting from slavery in some way. Sorry if you don't like that fact.
How does that change the fact that millions of white Americans were willing to die so that black people could still be used as slaves in their country?
"american is not about oppression"
Tell that to the Native Americans.
Britain ended slavery with the stroke of a pen. Millions of white Americans were so racist they were willing to die in a civil war so black people could still be used as slaves.
Yikes
No. They were having consensual vaginal intercourse but then he started giving stronger thrusting movements while he was holding her neck and pushing her head back.
Nothing to do with sodomy. He just simply became too rough for her.
Johnny tells the security guard he suffers with palpitations and neuralgia and the film before he meets him strongly suggests he's telling the truth.
He asks Sophie for some painkillers when he arrives. After he's had sex with Sophie, he is shown holding his heart. He struggles to walk up the stairs and has to force himself to make it. At a couple of moments on the street in the sequence where he meets the Scots, he makes a couple of facial expressions that suggests he's in physical pain.
It had nothing to do with nicotine withdrawal.
Some random tenant.
How it could possibly be the woman in the alley at the beginning? That happens in Manchester and then he leaves for London.
I don't know if you're British but we have a saying "wet behind the ears" which means naive. When Johnny says "I'm still wet" it's the only time in the film he lays bare who he is. Someone who doesn't know as much as he thinks and still has a lot to learn about life. When he says "why me, why not my brother" he's reliving his dad physically assaulting him as a kid. He was the one who always got it. There's no actual connection between Johnny and Jeremy other than a possible metaphorical one.
Jeremy is Satan. Pure evil with no redeeming value while Johnny is like a fallen Christ. Notice the clock behind his head to represent an halo. That wasn't an accident. Mike Leigh wanted that shot in there. There's a hint of some humanity in Johnny somewhere but we see very little of it. In the closing shot, he literally doesn't choose a path. He walks right down the middle of the road. He might end up on one path and ultimately change or he might go down the same path as Jeremy who is beyond hope. But for now or possibly forever, Johnny is in between redemption and destruction.
I think Jeremy is also there as a device for Mike Leigh to show different sides of the same coin on a social level, and to hold a mirror up to the audience in terms of manipulation of cinema and storytelling. Leigh seems to be saying men can be sexist and abusive whether they are poor like Johnny or wealthy like Jeremy. Ultimately, there's not much difference between the two, we just subconsciously think there is because we mostly follow Johnny but he shouldn't nescessarily be given a "get out of jail free" card from the audience just because of his background and because he has most of the screen time.
He was the landlord. He's made his wealth from property.
He wanted to kill himself (or at least said he wanted to) because he was vain and even though 40 is not old now, 40 is the new 30 etc, in the early 90's, 40 was seen as getting old.