Not a movie buff anymore, but interesting social commentary. “Eat the riich!” or at least, watch them vomit and dance the Montezuma two step.
Eyre targets the complacency of those who become removed from the experiences of ordinary people. And he gives an idealistic young teenager some revolutionary zeal. Sarah, 18, tells her family that despite the pandemic “we are still slaves”. She goes on to quote enduring lines from Sir Thomas More’s Utopia : “When I consider any social system that prevails in the modern world, I can’t, so help me God, see it as anything but a conspiracy of the rich to advance their own interests under the pretext of organising society.”
We may think we are on the point of bringing about social change, she says, but these words were written, she points out, in 1516.