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"Can I do anything for you, Sergeant?"
"No, I doubt it, seeing you're all raving mad!"
The first film interrupted by adverts, and the first film started after midnight. Have I failed? Have I fuck.
Waited for this on a late-night commercial TV slot because I've wanted to see it for ages. You see, some films are stand-alone works of art, of course products of their culture, but some help define it by simple matter of dissemination and repetition, becoming symbols representing more than other films do. Wow long sentence. You can tell I'm not in uni any longer since that failed a coherence test and had no references.
But yeah, everyone's seen The Wicker Man, right? At the very least everyone knows what it's about. Which makes watching it for the first time a little strange, like seeing the football highlights. Yet it is testament to the work that it didn't fail to shock, to inspire revulsion at all characters, and to see that the performances don't appear dated.
What, you say?! Well, I think the beauty of the film is that it's really difficult to age badly - yes, it's so obviously a product of the early seventies that you almost expect a newly-elected lead actor at any moment - but the filmakers must have known that stark-raving-madness translates to any society at any time in history.
Though, again, watching it at 01:15 may have helped.
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