Sammy and Rosie do it
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| German title | Sammy and Rosie do it |
| Original title | Sammy and Rosie get laid |
| Country of production | Great Britain |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1987 |
| length | 101 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
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| Director | Stephen Frears |
| script | Hanif Kureishi |
| production | Tim Bevan, Sarah Radclyffe |
| music | Stanley Myers |
| camera | Oliver Stapleton |
| cut | Mick Audsley |
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Sammy and Rosie Do It is a British feature film from 1987. The film sheds light on the effects of Margaret Thatcher's politics in Great Britain in the 1980s. It begins with a quote from the Prime Minister at the time: “ We have a great deal of work to do, so no one must slack, we'll have a party tonight, we'll have a marvelous party tonight, but on Monday we have a big job to do in some of those inner cites. ”
action
A Pakistani tax advisor, Sammy, and a social worker, Rosie, lived as bohemians in a London suburb in the late 1980s. One day, Sammy's father, Rafi Rahman, a prominent Pakistani politician and businessman, shows up. He wants to retire in London, which he thinks he knows well from his youth, and live with Sammy and his wife Rosie, from whom he expects grandchildren. He also wants to visit his former lover , Alice, whom he has not seen in decades. The London to which Rafi is returning has radically changed after thirty years, and the now old man can no longer cope with all the noise, dirt and clearly visible social misery. When serious riots broke out in the neighborhood where his son lived following a fatal police operation, he asked him to buy a house in a “better area”. To this end, Rafi wants to transfer the assets to his son that he was able to move abroad under questionable circumstances.
Sammy's prospect of sudden prosperity and Rosie's increasing discomfort with Rafi drive a wedge into their marriage. Rosie researches and gradually uncovered dark details from Rafi's political career: torture , murder , kidnappings of political opponents. Rafi's relationship with Alice also falls apart and he is suddenly alone: in a London that has become completely alien to him and with an alienated son. In addition, he has nightmares about the tortured and abused people from Pakistan. These are embodied by the one-eyed Pakistani taxi driver who drives Rafi from the airport to the city at the beginning of the film and then reappears. Rafi no longer sees any meaning in his existence and takes his own life.
Trivia
The shooting with Shashi Kapoor, who is considered a star in his home country Pakistan but is hardly known in the West, in areas of London, in which mainly Indian and Pakistani immigrants live, caused a sensation among the local population.
Roland Gift , singer of the group Fine Young Cannibals , can be seen in a supporting role in his first film work. Gift, who refused to be photographed with Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher on the occasion of the 1989 BRIT Awards for the FYC hit single She drives me crazy , was voted one of the "50 most beautiful people in the world" by the US magazine People in 1990 .
Reviews
"Frears and Kureishi serve a new portion of cinema anarchism."
“A rigorous reckoning with the 'post-social society' of England at the end of the 80s, in which reality, inflated dream games and unreal moments interpenetrate and which interprets sexuality as one of the last political freedoms. Exceptional in design and presentation and an asset for an audience capable of criticism. "
Web links
- Sammy and Rosie Get Laid in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Total disgust . In: Der Spiegel . No. 27 , 1988 ( online ).
- ↑ Sammy and Rosie do it. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .