McVICAR deserves a few comments in socialist newpaper because it is something it's about working class people.
very pleasant representative working people, they're nevertheless, dressed up in the snape or cast London gangs• ters, prison warders, was easy to tell and rooked cor Ill these folk are meant to be Cabs occause say 'fuck' and 'shit' all the time.
The film tells the story of a few months in the life of John McVicar who was described wanted Britain 1970 when scaped from prison. Really it's little more than a tough adventure film. Vicious This annoyed many of the professional reviewers McVicar. Most complained that the film offered no explanation of his subsequent transformation how foul-mouthed, vicious tough depicted in the-movie ended as the closing credits tell the audience, with 'a first NO LOWES degree sociology: He is now a journalist and broadcaster.' a Only one short the film, when McVicar seen reading a Penguin paperback, gives any hint of academic aspirations. For the rest he is just a mug meone who's spent most of his life in nick' It is not all that surprising that McVicar 'came good' the end. For what class does show is that it is not the easiest thing in the survive in the type of environmen what case up n else McVicar asks his wife on one occasion. No answer is forththey coming.
Liberal Not that the film is one of those worthy liberal attempts he to explain how background makes criminals. The Intent. seems, is simply to tell it as it really was.
This means the prison inBUSI warders, then against each other. criminals doing likewise.
There is no hint of a sense fraternitiNo the simon! fraternity. class sciousness is possible here: it atter atl, the proletariat at its most lumpen. scene in the film world to do'?, easy the The real scheming presumably happy with this characterisation. He was technical film and has been promoting it.
Col Daltrey of The Who, who has Playing him been quoted as saying that he wanted' to 'make the movie McVicar enough prevented MieVicar 11ke adviser to ine is Roger philosophical because only his rock talent tion.
him ending wardens unreformed And for those who want a message, that will do. At least the makers of McVicar stop to do, short of patronising the peo'ble they depict with some faninterpreta And at least the prison the LOUD are shown to have as little morality as those they repress.
If you have nothing better McVicar is worth, a look in. It is, be warned, ex tremely macho but then, so Is the works it showser NATIONAL Festival for Women's Rights -Against Tory Attacks. Planning day to mak My. We want this event to rect ano cross-section of Collectice. A film on Kurdistan and the Kur 1974 A Students 15 Union Hall Malet St.
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