Snak om China Mieville i kommentarfeltet fik mig til at søge lidt på nettet (hvilket hurtigt førte til noget mudder om, hvorvidt han har været krænker) – undervejs faldt jeg dog over historien om, at Mieville var extra på en ganske velkendt film. En film, som han har beskrevet som alternate history, sådan her:

Roger Michell and Richard Curtis’s is a dystopian image of contemporary London after the triumphant rise of some unseen fascist authority. With searing rage, the film underscores the totality of this victory, this dreadful alternative path, in its depiction of Notting Hill, famous for its Afro-Caribbean community and culture, as successfully ethnic cleansed. An area defined by diversity, the history of the British Black Power movement, the Mangrove restaurant, Claudia Jones and social struggle, is, with satire more bitter than Dean Swift’s, stripped of people of colour, the streets instead wholly populated with mindless, twittering, wittering, lily-white rich. There is no more Carnival, with its history in struggle and play, nor shall there ever be again. A bravura cinematic hell to be shelved alongside Pasolini’s Salò.

Men hvilken film er der tale om?

Svaret, sammen med et par andre film i samme genre, kan du finde her.

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