Billy Liar (1963)
Everyone loves this film but me, I guess. Overall, it's not bad -- it's well put together, with some amusing fantasy sequences and a palpable sense of disenfranchisement (Billy is the Angry Young Man's answer to Walter Mitty). And Julie Christie is luminous. However, Billy is just such a jerk a lot of the time that it took me out of the narrative many times -- am I really supposed to care about this prat? I mean, jesus. The last half-hour makes this worth seeing, but I still don't understand why all the acclaim.
Grade: B-
Everyone loves this film but me, I guess. Overall, it's not bad -- it's well put together, with some amusing fantasy sequences and a palpable sense of disenfranchisement (Billy is the Angry Young Man's answer to Walter Mitty). And Julie Christie is luminous. However, Billy is just such a jerk a lot of the time that it took me out of the narrative many times -- am I really supposed to care about this prat? I mean, jesus. The last half-hour makes this worth seeing, but I still don't understand why all the acclaim.
Grade: B-
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