I was a child in 1968 and don't recall this event. But i am fascinated by what I read. I hope there's a revolution soon

LONG LIVE THE REVOLUTION WE NEED A FRESH AND VERY ACTIVE AND PROGRESSIVE UNIONS

This man is a very enlightening speaker

Great speaker, Alan Woods.

Is this a Yorkshire accent? I want to know if I can understand Ken Loach films without subtitles or not (I speak American English).

@areviewsmovies8573

3 жыл бұрын

No. Alan Woods is from Wales. As for Ken Loach films, it depends what one. For Kes I would definitely recommend subs. I live near London and can barely understand half of the words said in it. However something like I, Daniel Blake is pretty easy to understand even without subs. So maybe try that one.

@dethkon

3 жыл бұрын

@@areviewsmovies8573 I watched his film Contact recently, and honestly I got the gist of it without having switch to subs more than about 1/4 of the time. You can figure out a lot of the story from context. And I’d also watched his film “The Wind that Shakes the Barley,” and I only needed subs during some of the Sinn Fein scenes. What a fantastic film, by the way. Also, I watched that Tim Roth film “Made in Britain” (Alan Clarke written and directed) without much trouble at all. I thought it was fantastic. _This is England_ was really great too, helped me understand the splintering of the English skinhead movement from a racially inclusive working class movement into the white suprematist/BNP side and the SHARP reaction caused by Maggie’s adventurism in the Falkland Islands war and how it destroyed the social cohesiveness of English society and gave rise to the BNP. Any more Ken Loach or Alan Clarke films that are “must-sees?” Edit: thanks for reminding me of I, Daniel Blake. I’m going to watch that right now, actually.

@dethkon

3 жыл бұрын

@@areviewsmovies8573 It IS a welsh accent, you’re right. Interesting that I didn’t pick up on it, since I’m a big fan of The Manics.

@areviewsmovies8573

3 жыл бұрын

@@dethkon What did you think of Blake? Yes This Is England is fantastic I'd reccomend Scum. One of my favourite films of all time. Truly a brutal look at a British borstal. Rita, Sue and Bob Too is a lighthearted poke at Thatcher's Britain which isn't essential but still very enjoyable. The Firm is a solid look at football hooliganism and its relationship with the middle class. It's also pretty short. As for Loach, Sweet Sixteen, Sorry We Missed You, Kes, and Cathy Come Home are all tragic accounts of wasted life amongst the British working class. And all are very very good

@dethkon

3 жыл бұрын

@@areviewsmovies8573 I thought that _I, Daniel Blake_ was a fantastic critique of the highly bureaucratized, byzantine, and impersonal British Welfare-State, something I can relate to personally as an American (Although what’s left of my countries welfare-state is even worse). I thought it was a very good film, and also a great piece of social-realism. I’ve seen The Firm, I loved it. Gary Oldman has been one of my favorite actors, ever since I watched Sid & Nancy in my late teens, and with a string of fantastic roles/performances throughout the 90s, (True Romance, Leon/The Professional, The 5th Element, and, of course, The Firm). I haven’t followed him much in the late aughts and ‘10s; I think the last film that I saw him in was in the last Christopher Nolan Batman film, which was kind of a mediocre role for him, IMO. Has he had any great performances since then that I’ve missed? BTW, thanks for the film recommendations.

Excellent talk, comrade, but you might need to dial down the smugness quotient a little. Not sure 'dialectics' has anything to do with this: Mandel was a dialectician par excellence, but that did him no good.

My favourite speaker to fall asleep to. Alan Woods. Great soporific slow pace.