Derek Jarman
Jubilee

The work opens with a somewhat serene scene, a beautiful castle and a woman feeding as many as 3 Great Danes. At this point, we witness the unexpectedness of the scenarios, given to the queen as if to show her the future governed by her namesake successor, very poorly maintained, how sad... . The wizard, also played by an excellent Adam Ant, shows her all this chaos but first tells her to get comfortable because she will have to see the shadow of these times. A hearth... is a machine on fire, near a dead man whose glasses are taken off and tried on by a boy; in this scene, I would show some interest because, to me, it represents people's superficiality, always looking at the product and the famous plastic (much revisited in the film!), rather than life. Let's suppose the cost of some drugs! Maybe 50 euros? With that money, you could have gone to a pizzeria or something similar; this is the desperate message Derek Jarman tries to send us, which many unfortunately fail to understand. Then there is the unexpected appearance of a group of girls beating up a person, a young person; it is assumed that this person must have been a simple quickie for one of them, and because he wanted to come, he was beaten up; indeed, the same will happen to Crabs, although a bit worse for him since they will kill him and throw him in a river (in the film Derek gives the impression that it’s water in the river, but when in contact with the dead man thrown into the ditch, it is revealed that the river is made of fresh cement) oh well it happens. Subsequently, however, the girls are introduced to a writer, and it is she who tells them about her life, her poorly lived life. She tells of the usual teenage desires, leaving the audience stunned... moving? I think so. Finally, we enter the scene where Kid meets Crabs in a restaurant, where he unleashes the wrath of the punk/group leader after he talks about his jacket and how he got it; then she introduces Kid (she will become his manager) to Borgia, who is a great music producer who bought a huge recording studio; during the acquaintance between the two, Kid tells him that he doesn't want to be screwed (wise words in punk), they let him try the magnificent Plastic Surgery and Borgia says he will be the best, and at this point the bassist approaches showing him that Borgia only wants success, wants to make him a golden egg goose, in fact, he continues to live on the street. The band becomes very friendly only when the bassist tells Kid about his life in a castle where everything was made of plastic and where the parents exchanged terrible gifts at Christmas; Christmas is just a blood cycle where your parents make you believe everything is fine, but instead everything goes to hell, and gifts should only be given when you see your friend alone and sad; only then can you give them a gift and not at Christmas.

Derek Jarman wants to make us understand in this film that punk is not just pure immediacy; punk is like pornography: you fall in love with it, you like it at first, it seems scandalous but then you get used to it, it's not scandalous, this is just human. With this milestone of modern cinema, Derek Jarman gives us a great masterpiece, and indeed shows us the shadows of this time.