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Pandemonium movie 20001/3/2024 Wordsworth starts out idolising Coleridge and following him, but then gradually turns to destroying his work etc this transformation is very well done by Hannah, who works the extremes well but does the transition better. Roache gets all the "wonder" stuff and is pretty good but he has the film stolen from him by stealth as Hannah delivers a great performance. The cast do well to help inject a certain amount of humour, wonder and drama when any or all of them are required. The direction is a bit too forced at times but it does have some nice moments that are original if not cohesive. This is not to imply it is brilliant because it isn't, but it is enjoyable, interesting and different enough to keep me watching. The characters of Coleridge and Wordsworth are both interesting and it is they that make the story worth sticking with. The precise meaning of this was lost on me other than it being about Coleridge being ahead of his time or timeless in his vision, but it did make the film interesting. I laughed quite a bit to read reviews ranting about errors in continuity, with some shots having modern things in the background perhaps they didn't reach the end of the film to see that this was deliberate and became more frequent as the film went on (why review it if you haven't seen it all?). With this, we are able to enter the experience rather than just the story it also allows for plenty of interesting touches. I do not know the "real" facts behind these characters so I will not go down the road of picking at this film for what definitely contains a great deal of artistic license (the film ends on the London Eye) but in a way it is the license that makes it more interesting. The actual plot is not so easy to get into, but the relationships are well written and there is always something going on. From the very start the film interested me with its strange visuals and interesting characters. Despite this I decided to give it a go and see if it was any good. The two friends get down to work, although the writing process starts to destroy Coleridge from the inside although maybe it's the opium? I taped this film because the title and cast caught my interest but, whenever I read what it was about I thought twice because it sounded like a dull historical film about characters I didn't know a great deal about. When Coleridge flees the city with his wife and baby to set up a self-sustaining Utopia of their own, William and his sister join them. At a rally where he protests against the war with France and slavery, Samuel Coleridge meets the young William Wordsworth, who idolises him and joins him in his "revolution". In the 19th Century, poets are the rock stars of their time using drugs, living on the edge and revered by many for their creative influence.
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