The main story is set in a British Military Intelligence Office in Whitehall during 1956, where a small group of foreign affairs analysts find their quiet existence disrupted by the Suez Crisis. Ewan McGregor plays Mick Hopper, who is doing his national service as an interpreter of Russian documents. Bored with his job, Hopper spends his days creating fantasy daydreams that involve his work colleagues breaking into contemporary hit songs. Louise Germaine plays Sylvia Berry, the blonde wife of the violent Corporal Pete Berry (Douglas Henshall). Sylvia is an object of desire for Mick's fellow clerk Private Francis Francis and a middle-aged pipe-organist named Harold Atterbow (Roy Hudd). Unlike the street-wise Hopper, Francis is a clumsy Welsh intellectual whose academic career has been interrupted by his army call up. The appearance of the bookish niece of a seconded American officer enables the two conscripts to pair off with suitable partners, after initial mismatching. Some of the side themes include the influence of American rock and roll on English society, the gulf between the senior analysts, who are regular army officers, and the conscripted other ranks, the work of Russian playwright Chekhov, and the appreciation of opulent theatre pipe organs. The unusual context — a military culture transplanted into a civil service style office environment — reflects Potter's own national service during the 1950s. While this piece has the form of a romantic comedy, unlike the less conventional works of Dennis Potter's middle period, it is not without graphic sex and violence, as well as Potter's characteristic flashes of dreamlike imagery. The centrepiece of this production is the surreal musical sequence set to the song In a Persian Market.
节奏有点慢，观点蛮尖锐，印度政府还比较自由啊，这也能上映
多层反转，谁还不是个工具人呢？
敢拍 就是好电影吗
纯粹纯心纯情，接纳所有情绪，接纳世界，接纳自己。故事一，工作上那卑微的自我表现，故事二，对朋友所拥有能力的羡慕… 催泪片尾曲奏响，莫名很悲伤，也许是因为可以悲伤的东西太多了。短短的好电影。
ps看过的第一部没有传统歌舞的印度电影
这是个操蛋的世界，还好可以从电影里找到希望，看到未来。
太精妙了，片中每一个人物都是一枚随波逐流的纸片棋子，不停地被分解和建构..仔细看就会发现片子里象征世俗正义的那帮人，说到底不过在履行自己的道德和权益——因为本该如此；反叛道德秩序那帮人也在行使自己的价值和权利——因为全世界的人都知道事实上就是如此。眼看着周围的邻居们思索思索再思索—创造，我们也惊呼要增强民族自信，柔和一些——喏，折中的温暖现实主义。而那些只能隔海相望的这帮电影朋友，脸上带着兴奋的潮红，惴惴不安地沉入剧情，朝着我们想都不敢想的刀刀见骨的现实主义失控驶去..
“因为你的沉默就是他们的通行权”看前面就想道我们的唐山事件，面对不公总有人选择站出来
好电影！感叹印度人太敢拍了！最后法庭的辩论场面我都想站起来鼓掌了，太精彩了叭‼️感觉现在亚洲的电影，就韩国和印度的能看了😅中国电影长路漫漫啊……
立意太高了！政治比什么都黑暗。因为冗长扣一星
这剧本脑洞太可以了。
弱小 美好 勇敢 不可结缘 徒增寂寞 永远温柔的夏目
50分钟里塞了俩个TV版长度的故事。在这俩个故事里，夏目都变成有能力保护其他人的人了。
种姓制度，法律程序正义，选举政治，高校剥削，印度片不止载歌载舞，还有各种揭伤疤
反转来的很是突然。很久没看过这么酣畅的电影了。
确实是不错，让人有很多的触动和思考，如果后面没有那么多政治元素，也许会更好一点。
看完心情挺复杂的，一方面是因为电影主题，女性➕人性➕政治，另一方面是又挺不理解的，很多编剧痕迹让人不能沉浸其中。
想念的力量，终归是一句的无力的“后会有七”么，真的，还有么？
2、媒体，你以为你很清醒，其实你还是被利用，被煽动，想起网络暴民
瑕不掩瑜，真相一步步反转，但普通人真的很容易被舆情牵着鼻子走，尤其是像血气方刚的学生，最容易被当作棋子。
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