In "The big fix", a private investigator meets with a former girlfriend who offers him a job. What looks like a middle-of-the-road investigation into political dirty tricks soon morphs into something far more dangerous. "The big fix" is a private eye detective tale mixed with a healthy dose of comedy and satire. The movie is notable mainly for the quality of its lead performance and for the portrayal of a particular social environment, to wit the environment inhabited by former members of the counter-cultural underground.
The movie describes the various ways in which ardent activists respond to the progress of time and to changes in the political and societal climate. Some of the activists react by embracing their ideology with greater determination than ever before, while others go for some kind of compromise or even for a full-throated adoption of a once-despised lifestyle. Yet others escape in superficiality, nostalgia or drug-induced oblivion.
In a way "The big fix" is also a movie about growing up. It's not difficult to be a revolutionary if one's eighteen or twenty years old ; but it takes some doing to hang on to the holy fire in the face of realities like nine-to-five jobs, mortgages, commutes and résumés. By the same token it is hard to concentrate on one's ideas and ideals if one spends a considerable part of one's day caring for a family. Somehow long discussions about the intellectual dynamic between Marx and Engels tend to combine badly with urgent requests to tell the bedtime story about Nibbles the Naughty Rabbit, AGAIN daddy, AGAIN AGAIN ! (Note the way in which our protagonist gets saddled, time after time, with the care for his young sons.)
Anyway, I recommend "The big fix". The version I watched was of an exceptional quality with regard to image sharpness.
The movie describes the various ways in which ardent activists respond to the progress of time and to changes in the political and societal climate. Some of the activists react by embracing their ideology with greater determination than ever before, while others go for some kind of compromise or even for a full-throated adoption of a once-despised lifestyle. Yet others escape in superficiality, nostalgia or drug-induced oblivion.
In a way "The big fix" is also a movie about growing up. It's not difficult to be a revolutionary if one's eighteen or twenty years old ; but it takes some doing to hang on to the holy fire in the face of realities like nine-to-five jobs, mortgages, commutes and résumés. By the same token it is hard to concentrate on one's ideas and ideals if one spends a considerable part of one's day caring for a family. Somehow long discussions about the intellectual dynamic between Marx and Engels tend to combine badly with urgent requests to tell the bedtime story about Nibbles the Naughty Rabbit, AGAIN daddy, AGAIN AGAIN ! (Note the way in which our protagonist gets saddled, time after time, with the care for his young sons.)
Anyway, I recommend "The big fix". The version I watched was of an exceptional quality with regard to image sharpness.