Sellinger's Round (so people say...)

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29 Juky (?)

Fresh from The Fields of Whimsy, @THEAGENTAPSLEY brings you a few Tweets, with some commentary...

The round London's Burning... Couldn't quite put a finger on it when forced-sung in childhood, but why such a jolly opening interval ? ->
— THE AGENT APSLEY (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) July 29, 2014

Maybe, as it is repeated, the slumbering complacency of the majority of Londoners (around fifteen, in those days), into whose sleep this message creeps, and so sounding in a dreamy way ?

The round London's Burning... -> Only with 'Fire, fire !' [doubled dubiously with recorders ?] is there alarm, dampened by the water ->
— THE AGENT APSLEY (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) July 29, 2014

Even without the shrill woodwind additions, the note here - which we have twice over - is wholly unexpected on the basis of what preceded it : perhaps piercing through that smug unconsciousness to a realization of the threatened loss of livelihood, liberty, and even life ?

The round London's Burning... -> But not any old method of dampening flames, but with 'poured-on' water. Genteel jugs, watering the fire ?
— THE AGENT APSLEY (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) July 29, 2014

The water is poured, though, with a dismal fatality, going through the motions, as if trying to resuscitate a crisply dried-out plant, yet this one has been dried out with fierce force, and is smoking and smouldering.


And what does it come down to, this primary-school musical picture ?

Maybe realizing too late that appeasement does not work - and that this bogus austerity is just a titanic excuse for greater oppression than Thatcher ever dared, politically beaten back as she proved to be by the events of one 31 March...


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Unless stated otherwise, all films reviewed were screened at Festival Central (Arts Picturehouse, Cambridge)