"There's something wrong with you people, you're not normal"
Another typically British aspect of this film, is humbug and hypocrisy regarding sex.In particular from the pompous folk who hold themselves up, as Pillars of the Community the very Height of Respectability.
One such person in Britain was Marry Whitehouse who assembled like minded souls, into the Viewers and Listeners Association.
This was created to be moral arbiters of the nation, to decide what the public should consider as decent and proper.
They created a storm in a teacup over a TV documentary about Andy Warhole, a programme that would probably have had only a tiny audience. Except that Whitehouse only managed to create publicity out of her furore. Many more people tuned in, to see what all the fuss was about.
In this film Arthur Lowe's character Mr. Bromley is an all too typical example of this ilk, parading in public as whiter than white.
While personally subscribing as Mr. Smith to the kind of club and practices, that he campaigns against.
I especially liked the scene with the films arriving at the church hall, with the vicar handling them. And another of them being screened to the prudes, being projected on Bromley's body.
Why because of a similar scene, from an episode of Steptoe and Son.
Where an old what the public saw machine, has been donated to the church jumble. Pictures of Albert that he had modled for as a youth, were on the machine and paritioners were paying to view them.
score 8/10
ygwerin1 30 March 2020
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