Adam Curtis se ponořil do archivů BBC a vyhrabal, na aktuální téma zdivočelých mladistvých gangů terorizujících Anglii, dva dokumenty z roku 1969 - o Hells Angels a Skinheads... :)
In the immediate aftermath of the riots there is a media fascination with the terrifying "feral" youth and the gangs who were behind the looting and the violence.
But this fear and fascination with gangs is not new.
I want to put up a wonderful and odd film I have found in the BBC archives. It is a documentary made in 1969 in response to a growing panic about violent teenage gangs in England and it focusses on the Hells Angels and Skinheads.
The filmmakers went off to get in with a group of Hells Angels and with a gang of skinheads. Their aim was to find out who the scary psychopaths were that made up the gangs that were threatening society. But what they came back with is a weird and brilliant mini-drama about two groups of individuals who are not that different from us - but more bored.
It is also sometimes very funny - because the gangs have their own rules and structures that are absurd and distorted reflections of our own society.
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BBC - Adam Curtis Blog: THE TERRIFYING GANGS OF ENGLAND
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/adamcurtis/2011/08/the_terrifying_gangs_of_englan.html