Were she anything other than a budding fashion designer, Eloise’s fixation on an era decades before her birth could be seen as a bit misguided or just escapist. In Ballard’s view, the decade’s political and cultural jolts, coupled with the rise of mass media, produced what he called in another interview “a peculiar psychological climate…” a “landscape around us that was almost like a gigantic novel we were living more and more inside a strange, enormous work of fiction.”Įloise, the 18-year-old heroine of Edgar Wright’s thrilling new horror film, Last Night in Soho, is obsessed with the ’60s: in her case, a particular cultural moment, the mid-’60s Swinging London where designers and artists and musicians created marketable youth culture from the shards of Mod rebellion. Ballard said in an interview contained within the 1983 reissue of his experimental novel, The Atrocity Exhibition. “A unique collision of private and public fantasy took place in the 1960s, and may have to wait some years to be repeated, if ever,” J. In Directors, Features, Interviews, Issues, Screenwritersīong Joon-Ho, Chung Chung-hoon, edgar wright, Fall 2021, Last Night in Soho
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