Sorry hon, but I make you wrong, I think I would know my own grandfather's voice. For starters he was of Irish origin and had a slight brogue.. View Meeting point, that's his voice. This is an English actor called Ian something I think. Video footage is interesting though.
Ok, I thought it was him because I have some tapes of BBC radio broadcasts of Louis M and they sound just like that but cool to have such a fantastic poet as your grandad!
The reference in the poem is about a liar. I think the film is accurate for modern day. The problem I have with the film is that it doesn't really capture each element on the poem, which is indeed complex. But that's the challange!
It would be obscene were it not laughable to include images of Tony Blair and Gordon Brown amongst shots of Stalin, Franco, Hitler and Mussolini. Those dictators were responsible for fearful repression and unimaginable suffering, not to mention millions of deaths. Blair is guilty of an attempt at liberating a country from such repression and fear. To accuse him one would have to condone Sadaam Hussein's fascist regime. What a shoddy use of a great humanist poem!
powerful stuff
e7cada 3 years ago
I don't like the actual reading of it, over egging words that speak for themselves, does it really need an echo?
ishfbm 3 years ago
it's Louis M.reading the poem
boringusername1 3 years ago
Sorry hon, but I make you wrong, I think I would know my own grandfather's voice. For starters he was of Irish origin and had a slight brogue.. View Meeting point, that's his voice. This is an English actor called Ian something I think. Video footage is interesting though.
ishfbm 3 years ago
Ok, I thought it was him because I have some tapes of BBC radio broadcasts of Louis M and they sound just like that but cool to have such a fantastic poet as your grandad!
boringusername1 3 years ago
Also does look uncommonly like him if you search for pics of Louis MacNeice?
boringusername1 3 years ago
sorry overreacted childishly...which tapes do u have?
ishfbm 3 years ago
that would have very hard to put some as old as the poem with modern day videos
very good work
penguincheif117 3 years ago
Blair, Iraq war, death and oppression. Smaller extent than the others, but same actions.
666matt616 4 years ago
The reference in the poem is about a liar. I think the film is accurate for modern day. The problem I have with the film is that it doesn't really capture each element on the poem, which is indeed complex. But that's the challange!
flashgunfilms 4 years ago
I completely disagree. I think this is marvellous.
cornwallcollege 4 years ago 2
It would be obscene were it not laughable to include images of Tony Blair and Gordon Brown amongst shots of Stalin, Franco, Hitler and Mussolini. Those dictators were responsible for fearful repression and unimaginable suffering, not to mention millions of deaths. Blair is guilty of an attempt at liberating a country from such repression and fear. To accuse him one would have to condone Sadaam Hussein's fascist regime. What a shoddy use of a great humanist poem!
Alastairdanson 4 years ago