This film has artistic merit and some of the vignettes are entertaining. It's interesting to see the likes of Adam Ant and Toyah in their formative years and it captures the nihilism and shock value of the early punk days, but it has no heart and soul and doesn't capture the hope and sincerity of the times, and lowers the movement to the levels that it was negatively sensationalised in the stuffy, right-wing, British media of the time.
If you really want a feeling of what punk was like in 77/78, just watch videos of the Clash, Sex Pistols, the Buzzcocks, or Siouxsie instead, cos I remember it as a positive, uplifting time when we felt we could change the world and not really how it's portrayed in this film...
If you really want a feeling of what punk was like in 77/78, just watch videos of the Clash, Sex Pistols, the Buzzcocks, or Siouxsie instead, cos I remember it as a positive, uplifting time when we felt we could change the world and not really how it's portrayed in this film...