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Legacy of Liverpool '08
Of Time and the City: review
Telegraph.co.uk - United Kingdom
By Marc Lee Film-maker Terence Davies' autobiographical "ode" to Liverpool, commissioned to mark the city's reign as European Capital of Culture in 2008, ...
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Creating your own legacy is not a search for a bitter end; rather it is an attempt to separate a sweet from a bitter ending. Often a film director would ask his camera man how much footage is left to shot and on goes the story if there is still some footage there to be taken up by something going on and on. There is the beautiful English word 'nebulous'. Sustained by irony and wit, masked by snobbery and pumped up with fists after a rugby or football match, the saying goes something like this: jump over the fence, my boy, for Liverpool is playing a match tonight. The game of the year with the entire world watching has of course everyone turned on and upside down. With here poverty galore and there the undying spirit of the Reds continuing to run down the field, they surely are not to be mistaken with devils or some other kind of hoax taken from a play by Shakespeare. So lets see with what you come up with, my dear man, and show if anything can made out of such a city no longer the fool it used to be! And what you are looking for might not shrine in the way what you are looking for! What did you say? Look man, I am trying to tell you the harbor front is alright, and if you go down town now, you might take a look around to see what legacy the year 2008 has left in Liverpool behind. Some called it a city of hope and the university has that name. There is no shame in admitting that the Conservatives are likely to abandon the city again. But come on man, they would never give us a chance to show who we are. So united we stand at the imaginary pier and give this new hope a shove or two to make it move on in this 21st century. Now if that is not an invitation to drink some beer, what else do you need, dear man?
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