The Last of England | movie | 1987 | Official Trailer - video Dailymotion

The artist's personal commentary on the decline of his country in a language closer to poetry than prose. A dark meditat | dG1fM3doX0twREhHUk0

Transcript

00:00What do you see in those heavy waters, I ask?

00:08Nothing but a bureaucrat from the Ministry poisoning the buttercups with a new defoliant.

00:16What's that I hear?

00:18The sound of Gershwin on his ghetto blaster.

00:23What else?

00:25The atom splitting.

00:27And the whispering?

00:30Half-truths spilling from the minister's case, wriggling in the blinding sun.

00:36What are they saying?

00:40All's well.

00:41No comment.

00:44Some of them are silent.

00:46Ah, there's the guard.

00:49What's the password?

00:52The evasion.

00:54What else do you see?

00:56Lies flowing through the national grid.

01:01And bribery.

01:04All's normal then.

01:06Yes.

01:06Where's hope?

01:10The little white lies have carried her off beyond the cabbage patch.

01:15They've murdered her?

01:16Yes.

01:18Yes.

01:20And tomorrow?

01:22Tomorrow's been cancelled owing to lack of interest.

01:25You saw the graffiti years ago on the Euston Road and didn't believe it.

01:32What proof do you need?

01:35The world's curling up like an autumn leaf.

01:38The storm's coming to blow it into the final winter.

01:41Can't you feel the days are getting shorter?

01:46God bless you.