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Just seen High Rise with Tom Hiddlestone - enjoyed it a great deal. I'm a big Ballard fan but somehow had never read this novel (despite reading most others) so can't say how strictly it sticks to the book. However the director convincingly summons JGs queasy dystopia complete with even queasier near future psychology.Cool! High Rise is one of my favorite Ballard novels, looking forward to the film.
Getting past the simple class war angle, the feel of the social psychological web portrayed here is not dissimilar to that Ballard conjures up in Cocaine Nights in a more refined and subtle form. The normalisation of ever more twisted and sociopathic behaviour.
The retro future setting (circa '75 - when the book was published) is a neat and necessary aesthetic consideration.
There are a few minor gripes but overall this is well worth seeing - Ballard done well on celluloid.
this list of top 3 Soccer Players of all-time:I 2nd that!
1. Johan Cruyff
2. Pele
3. Diego Maradona
Guess Axl isn't doing too bad especially compared to Vince Neil
http://youtu.be/aAixvk7zLlA
"Kiiick stat ma haat..bibben dah meeahh"
Sounds like troll gibberish
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