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More
Directing By Barbet Shroeder
Released 1969
Set in the midst of the psychedelic revolution, More follows on man's descent of the slippery slope. After graduating, the young Stefan leaves Germany to travel - the film opens with him hitching his way to Paris. On arrival, he loses his money in a card game, but his opponent, Charlie, takes pity and decides to take him under his wing.
That evening they crash a party at the home of a well to do parisienne hippy where Stefan falls for the beautiful and mysterious Estelle. Charlie warns him to steer clear of her, but by now the femme fatale scenario has fallen into place. When Stefan and Charlie leave the the party, Stefan is outraged that Charlie has stolen money from Estelle's coat and persuades him to let him return it. When Stefan calls on her to return the money, she rolls a joint and they end up sleeping together. When he notices a scar on her arm, Eselle tells him that she is a reformed junkie. He is angry, but swayed by her assuances that she no lover indulged. Estelle tells Stefan she is leaving Paris for Ibiza and invites him along - he follows a week later having been told to ask for Doctor Wolf on arrival.
Stefan arrives to find she is not at the hotel so he seeks out the mysterious Doctor Wolf who also warns him about Estelle. On returning to the hotel, he encounters contacts of Doctor Wolf and begins to suspect that he is not a straight forward man of medicine. He begins to suspect Estelle is sleeping with Wolf. When Stefan finally meets up with her he is troubled by jealousy and her changing moods, but their relationship is numbed by drugs and partying. Estell is clearly scared of Wolf and so, on Stefan's suggestion, they retreat to a friend's villa on the quiet side of the island.
All is going well until Estelle's friend Cathy turns up - he overhears them discussing heroin and realises that Estelle's drug problem is not a thing of the past. When Cathy leaves, he discovers Estelle delirious from the effect of the drug and is furious. Eventually, however, he weakens and is persuaded to try some. The couple slowly sink to the level of junkies, rapidly consuming a consignment of heroin that Estelle had stolen from Wolf's office. When the doctor discovers them, he blackmails them into returning to town where Stefan works in his bar selling drugs under the counter to Ibiza's growing population of addicts.
Sefan and Estelle's relationship begins to strain under the pressure of their dependence and so, when their obligations to Wolf are fulfilled, they begin a clean-up programme. Aided by large quantities of LSD to ease their withdrawel, they gradually manage to kick the habit. But just as lifestarts to improve, Doctor Wolf appears once again - Stefan is tormented by jealousy and again resorts to heroin.
Charlie, Stefan's friend from Paris, arrives. He is worried for Stefan and seeks to persuade him to leave Ibiza and return to Paris. He refuses to leave without Estelle who, it now transpires, is sleeping with wolf. Stefan wanders the town in a desperate quest to find her. He manages to beg two fixes of heroin from a friend and, despite advise, takes both of them. He dies of an overdose, still not having found Estelle.
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The Wall
The Pros and Cons of Hitchhiking
Radio KAOS
Written by Roger Waters
Released 1987
Benny is a Welsh coal miner. He is a radio ham, and is 23 years old, married to Molly. They have a young son, Ben aged 4, and a new baby. They look after Benny's twin brother Billy, who is apparently a vegetable. The mine is closed by the market forces, the Male Voice Choir stops singing, the village is dying.
One night, Benny takes Billy on a pub crawl. Drunk in a brightly-lit shopping mall, Benny vents his anger on a shop window full of the multiple TV images of Margaret Thatcher's mocking condescension. In defiance, he steals a cordless phone. Later that night, Benny cavorts dangerously on the parapet of a motorway footbridge, in theatrical protest at the tabloid press. That same night, a cab driver is killed by a concrete block dropped off a similar bridge. The police come to question Benny; he hides the cordless phone under the cushion of Billy's wheelchair.
Billy is different, he can recieve radio waves directly without the aid of a tuner; he explores the cordless phone, recognising its radioness.
Benny is sent to prison. Billy feels as if half of him has been cut off. He misses Benny's nightly conversations with radio hams in foreign parts. Molly, unable to cope, sends Billy to stay with hi Great Uncle David, who had emigrated to the USA during th war. Much as Billy likes Uncle David and the sunshine and all the new radio in LA, he cannot adjust to the cultural upheaval and the loss of Benny, who for him is "home."
Uncle David, now an old man, is haunted by having worked on the Manhatten Project during World War II, designing the Atom Bomb, and seeks to atone. He also is a radio ham; he often talks to other hams about the Black Hilss of his youth, the Male Voice Choir, about home. He is saddend by the use of telecommunication to trivialise important issues, the soap opera of state. However, Live Aid has decynicised him to an extent. Billy listens to David and hears the truth the old man speaks.
Billy experiments withhis cordless phone, he learns to make calls. He accesses computers and speech synthesisers, he learns to speak.
Billy makes contact with Jim, a DJ at Radio KAOS, a renegade rock station fighting a lone rear guard action against format radio. Billy and Jim become radio friends. Reagen and Thatcher bomb Lybia, Billy percieves this as an act of political "entertainment" fireworks to focus attention away from problems at "home."
Billy has developed his expertise with the cordless phone to the point where he can now control the most powerful computers in the world. He simulates nuclear attacks everywhere, but de-activates the military capability of "the powers that be" to retaliate.
In extreme perceptions change. Panic. Comedy. Compassion. In a SAC bunker a soldier in a white cravat turns a key to launch the counter attack. Nothing happens, impotently he kicks the console, hurting his foot. He watches the approaching blips on the radar screen. As impact approaches, he thinks of his wife and kids, he puts his fingers in his ears.
Silence. White out. Black out. Lights out. It didn't happen, we're still alive. Billy has drained the earth of power to create his illusion. All over the dark side of the earth, candles are lit. In the pub in Billy's home village in Wales one man starts to sing; the othermen join in. The tide is turning. Billy is home.