QUADROPHENIA (1979) **1/2 This is no doubt a great movie for Englishmen of a certain age. As an American, and one who came of age a decade or so later, it never really draws me in. There's not a single character I can identify with, other than drinking and listening to good music I can't see the point in what any of them are trying to do, and I've never had any idea why anyone would be willing to drive a Vespa in public. For those who (I am included in this one) who love The Who album...prepare yourselves, this is more like those movies where they make a movie generally about a novel, rather than following the novel literally. Loyally, but not literally, it definitely has the feel. But they left out one of my very favorite songs from it: on the other hand, where are you doing to fit in "The Dirty Jobs", unless maybe you develop the character of the father (would have ruined the rhythm and continuity) or during the resignation scene (which worked well without it)? The best part of it, for me, was Sting. He was very funny, which I guess may have been a small part of some of the bigger points they were working towards getting at.
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