Fascinating. I am at the part where the Argentines have secretly landed, and the governor is getting to get a couple of hours of sleep, not knowing there has been a landing.
The DJ at the island’s only radio station puts on “Yesterday” by the Beatles, and the scene switches back to the Governor getting into bed with the radio playing “Yesterday” in the background.
All hell was going to break loose, and everyone on those little islands is listening to the same thing, hearing things the same way, and when they all hear that song years later, they probably remember well that night when the song played.
Seems so much simpler and easier then. Now, you might have a thousand different people at random who literally found out about something went down by a thousand different ways.
One person might get it on twitter. Someone else might see it on the BBC website for the first time. A person might actually be playing a massive online game when the word spreads between players.
And someone will still see it over an air transmission on their television.
I just found the contrast just as interesting as all get out.
Now, back to the movie...:)
I love it were the DJ warns the Argies are coming and then puts on Sinatra’s “Strangers in the Night”.
I think the contrast is one the great appeals of the film. The quiet, restrained very bucolic lifestyles of the islanders - no internet, no tv, just radio and videos - and then suddenly violent action totally changing their whole world. It really made me think.