Paper of Plastic?

“It used to be said… it is better that 100 criminals escape punishment, than one innocent person be jailed. Being a relatively innocent person, I am all in favour of this…”

Seeing Repo Man on telly the other week, and being a big fan of the movie, I thought it was about time I stopped messing about and actually saw a few more of the films Alex Cox has made since (as I’d meant to do so many times before). I watched Three Businessmen and El Patrullero (Highway Patrolman) and thought both were excellent (Three Businessmen was deliberately slow to start but a rollicking good ride once it got going). Then I found Alex Cox’s official website which blew my mind (just a little, not too much). Surely the most comprehensive website put together by and about a film director ever! I was particularly stirred by his thoughts on the current state of the world’s political agenda: “Bush, Blair, and the rest of these anti-democratic rascals would like to keep us in a permanent frenzy of fear, punctuated by shopping…”