Ryan McNeil
Runtime
77 minutes
Up for Discussion
1. Introduction
2. KNOW YOUR ENEMY– Q& A with this week’s guest, Sean Walsh (3:21)
3. THE NEW SLANG – Review and reaction to ’71 (19:37)
4. THE OTHER SIDE pt I – Sean spins THE THING (46:29)
5. THE OTHER SIDE pt II – Ryan spins CHILDREN OF MEN (58:56)
Thoughts from your host…
Funny thing about doing this show: One episode I can be sitting down with someone I’ve never met face-to-face before, the next episode I can be sitting down with someone I’ve known longer than anyone that isn’t a blood relative. The even funnier bit? I feel like both episodes deliver the goods conversationally.
Like last time, the film up for discussion is topical. Like last time, my guest has a vested interest. Like last time, we managed to find a gold nugget in muddy river waters of the winter multiplex. And like last time, we find our minds drifting to things outside the edges of the screen.
So allow me to give you a glimmer into what my lunch breaks have been like for the last several months.
Thanks for tuning into episode one-hundred-thirty-four.
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What is our generation? I think I am about two years older than you, so very much of the same generation. I think we were a generation without identity. To quote a film that could have been the film of our generation:
“God damn it, an entire generation pumping gas, waiting tables – slaves with white collars. Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy shit we don’t need. We’re the middle children of history, man. No purpose or place. We have no Great War. No Great Depression. Our great war is a spiritual war. Our great depression is our lives. We’ve all been raised on television to believe that one day we’d all be millionaires, and movie gods, and rock stars, but we won’t. And we’re slowly learning that fact. And we’re very, very pissed off.”
Then 9/11 happened and changed the world as we know it. The film of our generation is probably The Dark Knight, best depicted in the conversation between Batman and Lucius Fox the film asks questions about the ethics of the surveillance society we are in.
Having said that, the most notable invention of the generation is the internet, does that make The Social Network the film of our generation?
Glad to see ’71 made its way to you. Smaller British films often do the rounds of festivals then disappear without a trace. When I wrote about it back in October I compared it to Walter Hill’s The Warriors so would probably have picked that as my other side. If you haven’t already seen it a film worth looking out about Northern Ireland is Shadow Dancer (2012). Worth watching for a fantastic performance from Andrea Riseborough.
Jack O’Connell has been kicking around for nearly a decade, the most notable films he had been in previously were Eden Lake and This Is England. The other great performance of his from last year was Starred Up. That is worth looking out for.