| WITHNAIL AND I (Left: Region free & subtitles in English. Right: Region 2 & subtitles in English)   In 1969. Unemployed actors Withnail and "I" (Marwood) live in a flat in Camden Town, London. They are totally tired of being unemployed, their messed up room and everything. plan to have holidays at Withnail's uncle Monty's cottage in the countryside. But they soon notice .....they've gone on holiday by mistake. It rains extremely, freezing cold, little food and supplies at the cottage. Some days later Monty comes to the cottage bringing food and wine. He's quite interested sexually in "I". "I" want to be back to London, Withnail takes advantage of Monty's desire to "I". When Monty drives "I" into a corner with his desire, "I" excuse that he and Withnail have been in a relationship for years. Monty believes and sets "I" free. Next morning Monty already left the cottage, "I" receive a telegram from his agent. On the way back to London, when "I" wake up and find Withnail who has no driving license drives the car, policemen arrest Withnail. They get back to their flat, Danny the dealer and Presuming Ed are staying there. "I" got his hair cut and leave the flat. Withnail wants to go to the station with "I", and "I" don't want him to do. "I" leave Withnail at the park, Withnail is alone in the rain there..... |
The first film Bruce directed. I think "WITHNAIL AND I" is a movie which we'd better enjoy its atmosphere because Bruce says "Even if you can speak English fluently but it's not your native tongue you don't get it ("WITHNAIL") in "SMOKING IN BED" (by Alistair Owen). We can understand well meanings of a word, something between words and lines when it's our native tongue. And when we think of its background, it's hard to understand many things if we weren't living in those years and growing up enough to remember. We can learn what happened from papers, but we can't experience it as long as we didn't live in the past. The story is based on the time Bruce and his friend Vivian spent together, it's not either which guy is Withnail or "I" though. |