You're right that is cute, its as if you came ...

2009-12-11T18:44:46.812-08:00

You're right that is cute, its as if you came up with it all by yourself!

You deserve a special sticker for your accomplishment.

Ha ha ha! Oh, Anonymous. Irony is so cute!

2009-11-21T00:10:37.319-08:00

Ha ha ha! Oh, Anonymous. Irony is so cute!

The reviewer waited five years to watch a costly D...

2009-11-20T20:58:54.887-08:00

The reviewer waited five years to watch a costly DVD he purchased, of course he isn't going to understand the film; he's pretentious.

I feel like you don't give the movie enough credit...

2009-02-20T12:20:00.000-08:00

I feel like you don't give the movie enough credit in terms of plot. The point of Jubilee is a critique of the punk movement, exposing it for what Jarman saw it as--hypocritical. Punk, as anti-establishment, embraces the largest establishment of all--capitalism, embodied by Mr. Ginz. Humorously enough, Mr. Ginz looks an awfully lot like Michel Foucault, a semblance that is especially humorous during Borgia's speech about controlling information and thus gaining power.

These group of outsiders, while on the first glance seem nihilistic, are actually searching for some value system. On the quest for nothing, they found it, and now they want something more. Take, for example, the scene where Crabs suffocates her hook-up and then after laments how she might have lost "her true love". While rejecting traditional values they are searching for those same values--not that I think Jarman is pushing traditional values, just that we should question the punk mantra. This is why Westwood despised the film, because it exposed her whole operation, she and McLaren will now openly admit that punk had been created to market "trousers" to kids. (That said, I think Westwood is a genius, insane, but genius nonetheless.)

The episodic nature of the movie only heightens the point that people become passive in their lives, a life divided into segments like the TV programs that raised them.

It's interesting that this film, to me, seems at once Foucauldian, Derridean, and Platonic (there are more allusions to the allegory of the cave than I care to count), but all-in-all I think it's great raucous fun.

As for the lo-fi aesthetic... matter of taste, I love it personally.

Comments on Criterion Confessions: JUBILEE - #191

You're right that is cute, its as if you came ...

Ha ha ha! Oh, Anonymous. Irony is so cute!

The reviewer waited five years to watch a costly D...

I feel like you don't give the movie enough credit...