It seems a long time since people felt the need to rally against the evils of cinema. The last film I can remember anyone giving a shit about in that sense is probably one of the Saw movies and at this point everything from that franchise just exists in my mind as a cynical grey mush with a weird clown in it. They’re not films that I’ll be revisiting any time soon.
Through that prism, the new video by London-based quintet Manflu is a refreshing and vaguely romantic dirge, ten minutes of sturm und drang set to footage of cinemagoers sat hypnotised before the big screen and eventually – SPOILER ALERT – getting shot in the head for their sins. I don’t really know what it all means. Cinemas are bad? I guess all you really need to understand is that it sounds a bit like HEALTH and the apocalypse.
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Submit further to the evils of escapism by going to see Manflu play live at London’s Hoxton Bar and Kitchen this Thursday night. Get your tickets here.
