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movie review - Brassed Off

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-eight years and a million words

Toronto, 1998.02.16

This little film from England starts off strong. It's about the coal-miners of Sheffield, who all lose their jobs when the Tory government decides to shut down the coal mine. The minors have a band, and the band attempts to play on. In the end, it gets a little stupid, but on the whole it's worth a watch.

Recommended.

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Society is indeed a contract... [the state] is a partnership in all science; a partnership in all art; a partnership in every virtue, and in all perfection. As the ends of such a partnership cannot be obtained in many generations, it becomes a partnership not only between those who are living, but between those who are living, those who are dead, and those who are to be born.

—Edmund Burke