Criminal Justice Bill Having heard back in '93 or '95, even before the first grade of school, the track I Love To Hate You from the synthpop band Errasure, electronic music settled firmly in my subconscious and accompanies me through life to this day (I write a review of Detroit techno from the American Jeff Mills, which was mentioned in this film).
Those who were born in the early or late 80s grew up with this music - perfectly understand why the 90s are nostalgia for rave. The samples, from which the compositions of such projects as Orbital, The Prodigy, Scooter, Ultra-Sonik were collected, blew fantasy, space, something exceedingly perfect and impossible, forced to move on the dance floor to the last. The parties in the clubs combined sports and trips to the psychologist at the same time - the dance floor was like one family, the music sounded like a loud call to movement, all the people around you, the clubbers are your best friends who are filled with the same positive energy as yourself, and you come home early in the morning, venting all the negativity from yourself through the pores of the skin with sweat and fatigue at night.
Based on such criteria, this musical Movie should have looked somewhat different, to put it mildly. With a faster development of the script and vivid impressions, as well as the music itself from 128 bpm minimum.
Why black and white paint? This is almost a documentary about night rave culture, and not “Human centipede-2” and not a biography of Stalin or Hitler, when there was no color film!
Why is the focus on actors with make-up to become football hooligans, fascists, but not fans of underground music style? Disco, whether it’s an abandoned rave at a factory (warehouse) or a nightclub – this is a pleasant event, which comes to a different audience of people. What Brian Welsh shows us: two Korean friends with a dog’s affection for each other, but one of them is the scum of society, the second is an insecure schoolboy working as a merchandiser in a supermarket with an always dissatisfied, insecure grimace. And drugs.
But fact is fact. As about the pit bull and amstaph in people due to the word of mouth and the inability to think their own convolutions and not to be led to nonsense and deception of thoughts only one - a dangerous fighting dog, a killer, just like rave - a den for drug addicts.
While all "cultured" people listen to classics, pop, rap or rock, nightclubbers are bound to prick, smoke or swallow. For this reason, so-called "loud music with fast beats" was banned. But, all the more attractive, because such a story can not boast of another style of the music industry. But, the past comes back: if earlier in factories, warehouses and open airs such as open airs arranged sessions, in our time, clubs are closed because of the seizure of real estate for apartment anthills. From where we left, there and back.
Throughout the film play old school tracks as OST. In the 90s, music was full of adrenaline, rave, groove. Wasn't as empty, commercial, glamorous, boring and pretentious as it is now. Yeah! Scooter fans: listen to, say, 1996’s Wicked! and compare it to, say, the lame T5C.
Also, in addition to black and white inappropriate pictures and the selection of actors, as a minus, it is worth noting the negligible meaningless dialogues and unattractive life of the main characters. Did the writer himself decide to offend, without knowing it, his viewers, among whom there are many fans of trance, techno, house or break-bit genres? Why is it openly demonstrated that if a raver is a drug addict, a dummy or a scum of society?
I expected more! RAVE is too fast, bright and loud to show it small, quiet, discreet and cheap.
5 out of 10