I can't really claim to enjoy this film for its face value. What I mean by that is, it is not (narratively) a film that I would bother with ordinarily.
However, there are some good points and reasons worth thinking about, if you're deciding to watch it.
The cinematography is really quite lovely; the landscapes are shot in romantic fasion, almost poetically and the locations are a great tribute to the traditional notions of what England should be. In that sense also, the film holds much nostalgic value for me.
When I first viewed the film I wrote it off, that is not to say I love it now, but on the other ocasions I have viewed it I've looked out for things that might inform me as a practitioner of film: it is great for lighting (the nightime scenes are expertly illuminated) and also for sub-textual reasons.
I reckon that the glue is meant to be a sexual thing - its also quite funny if Culpepper combines perversion with his moral crusade really. Its a film ahead of its time in this way - a film made when inhibitions and denial in society let P&P get away with a hell of a lot that people would have chosen to deliberately not see.
I will never like this film, but I enjoy watching visuals and if taken as a series of visuals instead of a film, I can cope with it and enjoy it. That's probably only because I wasn't born in the 30s anyway.
Not bad, 5/10 for nostalgia and respect.
However, there are some good points and reasons worth thinking about, if you're deciding to watch it.
The cinematography is really quite lovely; the landscapes are shot in romantic fasion, almost poetically and the locations are a great tribute to the traditional notions of what England should be. In that sense also, the film holds much nostalgic value for me.
When I first viewed the film I wrote it off, that is not to say I love it now, but on the other ocasions I have viewed it I've looked out for things that might inform me as a practitioner of film: it is great for lighting (the nightime scenes are expertly illuminated) and also for sub-textual reasons.
I reckon that the glue is meant to be a sexual thing - its also quite funny if Culpepper combines perversion with his moral crusade really. Its a film ahead of its time in this way - a film made when inhibitions and denial in society let P&P get away with a hell of a lot that people would have chosen to deliberately not see.
I will never like this film, but I enjoy watching visuals and if taken as a series of visuals instead of a film, I can cope with it and enjoy it. That's probably only because I wasn't born in the 30s anyway.
Not bad, 5/10 for nostalgia and respect.