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Originally Posted by krisk
I've only seen Clockwork Orange and Tommy.... I feel so deprived  |
Out of them all I'd say watch Kes first. Kes is possibly Britain's "Old Yeller". It's about a working class boy who finds an injured Kestrel (Kes) and rears it up by himself. In the process he finds that there's something beyond the bleakness of his surroundings. I don't know many people from the North of England who didn't watch Kes and read the book it was taken from in school.
Kes is one of a couple of books that were favoured in a lot of Northern English schools when I grew up. The other was the little known "A Pair of Jesus Boots".
Here's a trailer (I've just found out Kes is from 1970!
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