Product: Filth to Fury [VHS]
Rating: 5.0
Cuts Through The Bull****
I came of age with the Sex Pistols ( I was 17 in 1977). I can remember being inspired by their music, but I never got to really know the motivation behind the punk movement. This documentary clarified it for me.Certainly I wouldn't want to live the lives of the Sex Pistols...but the extremes of their life were like a never-ending machine gun spray against the plaisanteries that the bourgeois use to lie to themselves and others....how polite gentleman screw over everybody and still remain the "bedrock of the community". SP saw through all of this and offended the status quo with their authentic rage.Someone comments that the Sex Pistols ended at the right time for all the wrong reasons. I think that is an apt statement. Noone could carry on that type of intensity for a longer period and it seems as though the group was on the verge of being coopted for a number of reasons....seems like the heroin had a lot to do with this. Of course, it's also true that consumer society manages to coopt everything....even though SPs rage and nihilism made it really difficult to do.Thomas Seay