is it really so strange?
IS IT REALLY SO STRANGE?
USA 2005
režija/directed by
William E. Jones
scenarij/screenplay
William E. Jones
fotografija/cinematography
Jim Fetterley, William E. Jones, Cyril Kuhn
montaža/editing
Paul Hill, Catherine Hollander, William E. Jones
format/format
video, barvni/colour
dolžina/running time
80′
Filmmaker William E. Jones interviews contemporary fans of The Smiths and Morrissey. A fascinating aspect of youth culture in Southern California is that most of the audience listening to English pop music of the 1980’ is Latino, sons and daughters of immigrants from Mexico. This phenomenon has received attention from the mainstream media before now, but Is It Really So Strange? is the first documentary that allows the fans themselves to speak at length about their lives, their loves, and their brief encounters with their idol, Morrissey. They show their bedroom shrines, talk about the nostalgic fashion of the scene, and reveal the private passions that compelled them to worship this working class Irish boy from Manchester who became a great pop star, then moved to Los Angeles.
IS IT REALLY SO STRANGE?
USA 2005
režija/directed by
William E. Jones
scenarij/screenplay
William E. Jones
fotografija/cinematography
Jim Fetterley, William E. Jones, Cyril Kuhn
montaža/editing
Paul Hill, Catherine Hollander, William E. Jones
format/format
video, barvni/colour
dolžina/running time
80′
Filmmaker William E. Jones interviews contemporary fans of The Smiths and Morrissey. A fascinating aspect of youth culture in Southern California is that most of the audience listening to English pop music of the 1980’ is Latino, sons and daughters of immigrants from Mexico. This phenomenon has received attention from the mainstream media before now, but Is It Really So Strange? is the first documentary that allows the fans themselves to speak at length about their lives, their loves, and their brief encounters with their idol, Morrissey. They show their bedroom shrines, talk about the nostalgic fashion of the scene, and reveal the private passions that compelled them to worship this working class Irish boy from Manchester who became a great pop star, then moved to Los Angeles.
