So in a red letter week that marks the release of both GTA IV AND the end of school, Justice has proffered their new video ‘Stress’ to the masses. My first reaction was all like Cool! A guerilla story line shot from the hip, just what this song needs!

So I was like, This looks eerily familiar/ mdma flashback : Aphex Twin’s Come to Daddy


With, like, a heavy dose of socio-economic Parisian thug life commentary : La Haine


But pretty most things begin with these two classics - First, I give you the the Warriors:


and second, the numbing gratuitous violence of Stanley Kubrik’s A Clockwork Orange:

and


This is where we give thanks to POST WAR ITALIAN NEO-REALISM for all of the above:


So the next time some dude in a bar tries to pick you up by referencing Stress to this:

Nod and smile but just remember where this stuff REALLY came from. Shooting in streets and stairwells and stations with everyday people and natural lighting wasn’t optional, it was the only way in a war-torn city with a devestated working class. And they ended up with like utterly triumphant films. Much respect to the people that put the Vérité in cinema. Holla.

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