Review of The Filth and the Fury (2000) by Tony U — 15 Aug 2016

This is an amazing documentary about one of the first successful british punk bands. Johnny Rotten's arias and commentary was poetic at times. His vision of why the Sex Pistols succeeded was brilliant. Some noteable moments was when he said that, "all though I could conquer all of England, I couldn't conquer one heroine addict (Sid Vicious).".

It was hilarious how the band pointed out how the press and commercialized England portrayed a world that was docile, fluffy, pretentious escapism in a suffering England and UK where there was economic depression, and ironically a garbage strike that carried on for years. Add to that the violence of the England/Northern Ireland relations and it was downright understandable that a band like the Sex Pistols used their obnoxious anti-style and cynicism to capture not only England and the World but to influence the very history of music.