1st assignment: review of a film: The Boat That Rocked

Great Britain 1966 : the greatest era for British rock&roll and pop music. Unfortunately the BBC radio only plays less than an hour of pop music a day. Anchored in the north sea, Radio Rock is a famous pirate radio station installed on a boat, that plays rock and pop music 24 hours a day for its 25 millions listener.

Carl a 18 year old young man, has to spend some time on that boat and he's going to share the life of the crew composed by all the famous Djs of that radio who relays each other everyday and every nights in order broadcast music non-stop.

In the meantime, the government is really annoyed by the growing success of those pirate radios, so they're trying to shut Radio Rock down.

Basically the movie deals with: in one hand the everyday life of Radio Rock, and in an other hand the numerous attempts of the government to make Radio Rock illegal in order to shut it down.

You'll love this movie if you're a music lover. Indeed "The Boat That Rocked" is about music and how people fought for it at that time. One of the most interesting part of this movie is the quality of the soundtrack with songs by The Rolling Stones, The Who, Jimmy Hendrix, David Dowie and many other great figures of this century of rock and pop music. This movie delivers an important message about music and how it will (and therefor has) influenced everybody's life. As far as I'm concerned I loved this movie so much that I saw it several times in the cinema just to enjoy the soundtrack and to have the feeling that I'm a part of that fight for the music. To finish, if I had to sum up the message delivered by the movie it would be by quoting these lines:

“ And as for you bastards in charge, don't dream it's over.

Years will come, years will go, and politicians will do fuck all
to make the world a better place.
But all over the world, young men and young women
will always dream dreams and put those dreams into song.
Nothing important dies tonight.
Just a few ugIy guys on a crappy ship.
The only sadness tonight is that, in future years, there'll be so many fantastic songs
that it will not be our privilege to play.
But, believe you me, they will still be written.
They will still be sung and they will be the wonder of the world. “