Sorry but the British Connection IS important

Rating: Null/10 (14 May 2006)

The most important thing about this film has been something never mentioned by ANY IMDb posters or US critics Every review every comment refers to this as a 'Hollywood' picture.Why?
This is a British film,written and directed by its British director and except for a few minutes of 'shots to 'establish 'the setting is America,it was entirely made and created by British production staff designers and crew in a British film studio Ironically (although I am not writing about the films qualities) it happens to be a film in which 'real' realism is the most important quality and this is something that all films made in Britain have (even fantasy films like Harry Potter)and even bad films -why this is would need a book to explain
If this film had been made in France of Italy it would have been talked of as a French film etc Yet Americans seem completely unable to accept that any British film industry exists Because the huge British film industry -that has created most of the worlds biggest international successes for the last forty year- is financed by American distribution companies its products are ruthlessly marketed as American Yet this is an enormous lie-indeed although "A movie is only a movie"looked at from any point of view, its one of the most fantastic lies in history!
I live near the studios that made 5 of the Star War films,all of Kubricks post 1960 films Saving sergeant Ryan MissionImpossible 1 ,Raiders of the Lost Ark Indiana Jones Batman 1Batman Begins Gladiator BlackHawk Down'Alien and dozens and dozens of others (plus of course the Bonds Potters Chocolate Factories etc etc)
Now it seems that New Zealand or Australia are given great publicity as film making nations -but never the British !
Films have never been made in Britain because its particularly cheaper-there are tax concessions in every state in America and most countries.They have been made in the UK because of the unique quality of the product Even today when Eastern European countries are competing with British studios most of the high tec work will remain in Britain where these films are set up and where London remains the true film capital of the world. Does any of this matter ?
Yes it does. Americas problems devolve from its strange arrogance about its capabilities in nearly every sphere- entertainment, science,business the military etc.It is regarded as a nation increasingly deluded by this-the contrast between arrogant fantasy and reality is becoming wider and is dangerous.It gives America a misplaced sense of its real position in the world
Few people hate America.The world of Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland, of sitting back in the Chevy ,elbow out the window, miles of highway ahead and the desert either side with a coke and burger handy -this represents a level of relaxed classless stressless living that everyone can relate to and dream of.
What is essentially cultural thieving of the kind developed by what are essentially American film financing and distribution companies represents a desperate attempt to keep America on top of the world.If Americans realised how phony that position is they would start to do something about it.