Considering how many films are available through Amazon Prime, it can feel like a bit of a wilderness sometimes when you want something to watch that will entertain without giving flashbacks and dreams that you don't want.
So when I saw they had the Sweeny (70's TV cops and robbers series set in sarf Lundun) I had to watch it.
It's slightly shocking actually. Everyone smokes, all the time. Everyone drinks in the way I remember people drinking (not my parents FWIW) with nasty blended whiskies, dodgy fizzy wine to look posh. The clothes, the motors, it's all there guv.
In 1977 when this was shot (IIRC) I had just left school at 16 - this is how I remember it was. People seemed tough, violence had been a part of being at school and certainly some of the kids I knew planned a life of crime - were quite open about it. In some ways it was a time of optimism, a time of discovery, a time of peak-excess when very few thought that we needed to be careful about the future. We imagined there would be colonies on the moon and maybe further by now, rather than the West becoming self-absorbed and the East crumbling into kleptocracy.
Man you nailed it!
ReplyDeleteThat whole time of life has a perception around it, and the perception is kind of what's caught up in my head, the music I used to listen duing that time, and the television shows that were on then.
Lauralea and I have been watching some programs from then as well. Yes the smoking wow. :)