Merry War
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Movie Reviews of Merry War
Movie Review: FINALLY! DVD is available!!!!
Summary: 5 Stars
Finally - after years and years of seeing this item here at amazon, the DVD has finally been made available and I now own it. Great movie that most people don't know about. Glad I finally own it!!!Movie Review: Good adaptation of Orwell's novel; reservations with the ending
Summary: 4 Stars
A Merry War is based on a not very well known book by George Orwell, Keep the Aspidistra Flying (it was shown in theaters under that name in some countries). In 1930s London, Gordon Comstock (Richard E. Grant in a not very impressive performance) stars as a copy writer in an ad agency (where he is considered among the best in the trade) who leaves his job in order to pursue his vocation as a poet. That turns out to be a very bad decision, not least because his poetry doesn't arise from mediocrity. His life goes downhill after leaving the ad agency, at least from a material point of view, moving from one bad form of housing to another worse, until he finishes in what 1930s Europe would be the equivalent of a slum. His long suffering girlfriend, Helena Bonham-Carter, accompanies him, but up to a point, and in the end, it is she who makes him go back to his senses. Comstock final embracement of bourgeoisie conformism (which is in the book) leaves something of a bad taste (also, the movie is surprisingly pro life on the issue of abortion). Something I have found also surprising: It has been said that Orwell turn away from the left after his disillusionment with the Stalinist repression of the trotskyites during the Spanish civil war, but this book was written before that war, and Orwell already happily punctures more than a few of the left's sacred cows.Movie Review: Unjustly neglected small gem of a film......
Summary: 4 Stars
Because wit and charm are in short supply these days, both in the culture at large and in film, "A Merry War" stands as an important piece of work. Literate, humorous, and bitingly satirical, the film also gives us Helena Bonham Carter and Richard E. Grant as two rich, fascinating characters who are worth spending time with. The film is based on a story by George Orwell and like "1984," the story covers conformity and the need for the human spirit to triumph over mindless commercialism and statism.