9/10
fantastic stuff
14 July 2011
It's out now on DVD (but you have to have a non-zonal player). I was blown away when I saw it the first time. Also, I just did my about-35 year anniversary reading of Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow, and I know I felt a strong resonance between Pynchon's acid-trip evocation of the late- and post-WWII years and this satire about Post-War Brit (world?) culture decay.

Pynchon also is known for having assorted characters break into song at the drop of a situation.

Furthermore, he incessantly switches between "reality" and someone's subjective fantasy life. Not that Potter doesn't in his own right love to do the same, but I'm not sure if it's a matter of influence or just coincidental genius.

This is a must-see!
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