the film Jubilce has to offer. FIRST THING, I don't think it's very funny when T have to pay a trendy entrepreneur E1.75 (yes one pound seventy-five) so ice a film about lamong other things) a trendy entrepreneur ripping people off 1 particularly don't bke it when I leave the cinema — Giate Twp in this case — with a nasty taste in my mouth and a sick feeling in the pit of stomach.
It wasn't s0 much violence — 1 mican, these days we're all so blasć abour mutilation as us ucE nosm And l'd been promised that this film had something deep to say aboul British society.
RAMBLE Jubilee has a two-sided plot (if that's the word). We start at the court of Queen Elizaberh 1 with a long metaphysical ramble by court astrologer John Dee.
Apparently this is based an phic Monad'. It doesn't matter. Only The TALNCIESESULE audience will understand what Il's about and there woien t many there the night 1 went.
We come back to this mongmental ledium a HumDer times throughout the film, but the real action is elsewbere. Bod (played by the same actress as plays Elizabeth) reigns over a punk England, and post-Clockwork Orange. where brutality rules, women are dominant and ageressive tand Very ViDICaE a0d DEl passive and sexual. my GROTESQUE the The population spends its time smashing up cars, making récords and policemen. Everything apparently is owned by Borgia Ginz, the camp and implicitly Jewish impresario:
He is played by Orlando of the Lindsay Kemp mime company, so we also pet treated to a grolesque COD-TILOERISLO mimue from that incredibly overrated gang.
The cast is split haif and holf hetween people with names like Little Nell and Adam Ant (that's their "rcal" names) who can't act, and aciors actresses who find the whole thing rather embarrassing and keep dropping their working class acoents.
1 went co see the film because of post-modern disembowelling I thought punk was important The clothing und lifestyle hold no attraction and the music does grievous bedily harm to my aural and Jubilee 1 was giving chance to prove itscif. It failed.
Tobe fair, none of my punk Iriends bked it eilher. For them il wasp't "real' punk but a trendy bowalerisation. Or they JENNY RUNACRE: a punk image of the queen of England Sebastiane apparatus speaking Larin). punk at "real"
hippses died extremse renction.
CULT nunk an rascit youth cult;
predecessors.
DICUY temember.
were renne resistance.
VIOLENCE ITUSICrocording say it was a misogynist gay film which is plausible since che director's previous track record (nude men But I don't believe there is punk and tready punk any more than I believe thie people who tell me that the Juhilee perfectly expresses punk with all its limitations Ami-authoritarianism which there's plenty in the film) PULIS is not the samne as class struggse or révolutionary politics. I1 can just as well oqual fascism and Losdon:
There's a strong (though wrong) current in the West Indian community that sees all For all the Rock Apainst Racism badees and Right to Work marches. punk needs polities before it becomes anything more than a We've had youth rehellions before. They all claimed lo be completely differeht from thenr Hippies were en. They people too, love (including gay love), thes opposed authority and all the rest. Buc it still 1ook a massive politicai movemenl before long hair symbol or Thisis a punk bleu. It shows a futare when Britain is turnod over 1o the production of punk - Buckinghant Palace is studio violence is the rule and old fashianed ilusions like socialism have been swallowed up by the record magnates The fils is not necessarily ip favout of this future: it simply VOL. If you want sometbing more hanefu vou will bave to ioo heyond this film.... and heyond Jubilee is presently showing at Gale Two in Rassell Square, ABC cinemas in Edgeware and Tuton: Seala, Liverpool: and Futurist, Birmingham.
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