What seems so strange is that moment in history is almost forgotten. The film for me became an act of remembering. What shocked me most was that many of the young people who watched the early cuts of the film didn't even know what a strike was, let alone the details of this particular struggle that did so much to define our current age. Ironically, the fissures in British life are as deep as ever, despite the supposed levelling of the Blairite project. This has nothing to do with culture but everything to do with real inequality.
Lives continue to be blighted by being denied their full expression.
From a speech given by Arthur Scargill in 1984, it encapsulates everything I was writing about.