Like most working-class Brits, I knew nothing of Peterloo (and I am from Manchester into the bargain).
Mike Leigh has done an excellent job, documenting this momentous event in British history, an event conveniently airbrushed out of my secondary school education. Imagine that.
A good 2.5 hrs long, it would make a decent 12 part Netflix drama. Though, he'd never get the funding for that.
It is long, it is educational, it is historical, it is incredibly worthy. Watch it and draw parallels with the Britain of today. FPTP electoral system, zero-hours contracts, food banks, Brexit, et al.
i gave it a 9.
Mike Leigh has done an excellent job, documenting this momentous event in British history, an event conveniently airbrushed out of my secondary school education. Imagine that.
A good 2.5 hrs long, it would make a decent 12 part Netflix drama. Though, he'd never get the funding for that.
It is long, it is educational, it is historical, it is incredibly worthy. Watch it and draw parallels with the Britain of today. FPTP electoral system, zero-hours contracts, food banks, Brexit, et al.
i gave it a 9.