O Lucky Man!
This is the story of Mick Travis (Malcolm McDowell), a British everyman whose drive to succeed takes him on a strange and surreal journey through the social levels of England. He starts as a coffee salesman, but by strange turns of events he becomes (among other things) a victim of torture in a government installation, a medical research subject, a personal assistant to an evil industrialist, and eventually an auditionee for a film. Through his journey, Travis gains a new worldview: he learns that to succeed, he must abandon his principles but still withdraw himself from the evils of the world.
I think that it's a fun story, and it has an interesting look at society. It also makes good use of music by Alan Price, who appears throughout the movie singing the soundtrack as a way of commenting on the story. Even though it is very long, and it has a lot of vignettes that don't seem to add to the story, I find it interesting and sometimes funny enough that I don't mind. |
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