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"Another Year" Film (Dir. Mike Leigh, 2010)
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Edited Sep 25, 2015, 07:51
Re: "Another Year" Film (Dir. Mike Leigh, 2010)
Sep 25, 2015, 07:15
spencer wrote:
That Eastenders has been on telly for so long and remains so popular is a damning comment on this country's mentality. Happiness? Joy? Goodness? Can't have that. Misery? Backstabbing? Conflict? Now you're talking! : (


Do you think that is new or unique? I am not so sure. Those Greek tragedies and Shakespearean plays that were so popular back in the day? Not many happy endings or blankly likable characters. Beowulf, Chaucer, Arthurian Legend, Milton, Dickens, Conrad etc etc. Eastenders is part of a very long tradition of hugely popular morally dubious characters behaving in a questionable fashion with the odd love story thrown in. And the lovers nearly always have a bad time.
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