As someone who is half English and half Welsh, I am aghast at this preposterous and divisive piece of faux-mystical trash - every word is just specious bilge. Accompanied by the typical fuzzy bits of stock footage from Adam Curtis, and his usual disjointed 'music' (which sounds like Ron Grainer on LSD, assisted by Keyboard Cat), it staggers and lurches along from one amateurish and ridiculous scene to the next. If ever he wanted to drive a wedge between England and Wales, he's certainly going the right way about it (and the mob will suck it up with glee - people are certainly stupid enough). I mean, really, this is just a complete insult to grownups? They wouldn't even show simplistic and schmaltzy rubbish like this on schools television. Bludgeoning people between the eyes with flagrant falsehoods is so patronising and malicious - but it's The Way of Adam Curtis, it always is (horrible little troll that he is). It's also a complete insult to real refugees and boat people (but the guy is too narcissistic to be ashamed of himself). And all those windy empty speeches full of 'impassioned' hot air - give me a break!
But my favourite scenes are with Patrick Balardi. Watching him snog his male next-door neighbour was both hysterical and toe-curling at the same time - in fact that very funny scene was the best part of this whole sorry fiasco. But that Masonic handshake scene was just so revealing about the pathetic Adam Curtis, and what he thinks he knows! (Which is nothing - he just makes all this balderdash up as he goes along - and the BBC pay him for it!)
But my favourite scenes are with Patrick Balardi. Watching him snog his male next-door neighbour was both hysterical and toe-curling at the same time - in fact that very funny scene was the best part of this whole sorry fiasco. But that Masonic handshake scene was just so revealing about the pathetic Adam Curtis, and what he thinks he knows! (Which is nothing - he just makes all this balderdash up as he goes along - and the BBC pay him for it!)