The Gun Is Loaded (1989)

12/16/1989 (US) • 35m

Music

Overview

At the end of the Reagan years, rocker and confrontational performance artist Lydia Lunch launches a broadside. From a formal podium, she attacks the white male power structure of the US. Next she takes on her parents. Then, the volume lowered and the background the streets of New York, she lets us know what she thinks of life, of herself, and of us, anyone who's watching or listening. Life is depression, despair, and death. She's the girl next door gone bad. And us? Compliant sheep. Lunch lays out a challenge.

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Status

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Original Language

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Keywords

poetry

no wave

spoken word

no wave cinema

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