After watching this film in one go, the biggest intuitive feeling is: You don't have to be an United fan to appreciate this. As a nominal Arsenal fan, a not-so-pure pan-British fan, I was lying in bed watching After finishing the disc, I couldn't help jumping out of bed to give the director a standing ovation.
One of the best things the director brothers have done is to inject a bit of a bigger social perspective into the football documentary, and having Danny Boyle and Tony Blair for interviews is the icing on the cake. In this way, not only Manchester United fans, but even viewers who are not fans can more or less relate the story of the Class of 92 to themselves.
Last semester, I had a very good relationship with a Celtics fan teacher who taught me, and I would chat for a while after class every week. I remember one lazy sunny afternoon when the two of us casually chatted from Celtic to Manchester United, and I threw out a question that had been in my chest for a long time: "Why is Manchester United considered to be the only one among so many giants? Is it the club that best represents Great Britain? What gives Manchester United this so-called illusory Britishness?"
The teacher's answer was straightforward: because of these two major events in Manchester United's history - the Munich Air Disaster and the Class of 92 , both in British society can arouse widespread recognition beyond football. Celtic actually had such a historical opportunity. In 1967, 11 starting teams from within 30 kilometers of Glasgow used aggressive football to defeat the peak chain defense master Inter Milan to win the Champions League. It's a pity that the story of "The Lion of Lisbon" did not make the Celts conquer the hearts of Protestants all over the UK, which is another matter.
The massacre in Munich is not listed, but this film has opened up another perspective for me to look at Class 92. Fragments that appear as backgrounds are by no means optional embellishments. 1992, what a special year Queen Elizabeth called Annus horribilis, the streets were full of bloodshed and broken hearts. These six young players won the FA Youth Cup in such a year of unbreakable and unresolved, and quietly hit the road. Thousands of orphans left by Thatcher began the healing process from this year. "Stone Rose" began to go abroad this year, a younger oasis has just emerged, and it is destined to shake the world with an even more amazing magnitude in the future. After a long stale and moldy 80s, Britain needs to do something and smash some Tory fences to get some air. Which city is more suitable for this role than Manchester, an important city in the northwest? In this industrial city proud of its working class and Northern Soul, you can smell cinder and steam as you walk through the noisy Piccadilly Gardens in the city center. Moreover, this is a traditional British city, with Protestant royalists still in the mainstream, more English than the immigrant port city of Liverpool not far away. God said Britain had to do something new, so Manchester poured all its energy into the two most important pop culture dimensions of football and music to let you fly.
A more coincidental arrangement of fate is Tony Blair, who is a good soy sauce in the film. In the FA Cup final of the 1999 Triple Crown, this guy actually sat in the stands as a fake Newcastle fan. The way this young man who was a bit rebellious and not serious when he was studying at Oxford entered the political arena is very similar to Beckham's style of breaking into the football and fashion circles. The epic victory of the Labour Party in the 1997 general election was just like Beckham raised his face with a smile on his face after scoring the lob shot in the middle circle, and a handsome young face appeared in the bright sunshine. At this moment, you know the whole world is at his feet. In 1999, when the gang of boys achieved greatness at Manchester United, Blair's new labour was also shining in the UK. This year, the Scottish Parliament reopened after more than 300 years, demonstrating Blair's courage to decentralize power; internationally, he and his good friend Clinton taught the barbaric Serbs a lesson, the "third way" of neoliberalism The future looks promising. I can feel the happiness of the blood of the British in that era: football, music and politics, the three most important aspects of life other than the weather, are all undergoing a revolution with positive energy. The sun is just right, and tomorrow seems to be It is paved with gold.
So you understand? For a club to become a symbol of a country, it has nothing to do with the number of trophies, football style or household registration. So Arsenal are always thinking that as long as they cultivate Will Sher Ramsey can become a more British club. It's just a picture. Manchester United's Britishness is nothing more than the golden period of its club's history, which coincides with this period of rising fortunes for the whole country. , In addition to the grades, the story of Class 92 has more human appeal. These are six working children with ordinary backgrounds, with ordinary accents, working as hard as ordinary British people, and finally the most sensitive and inferior in the hearts of British people. The success story of Continental. There is a culture of talent, hard work, handsome guys and vigor, but more importantly, luck. Destiny is so kind to Class 92 that they have become an important part of the whole British cultural revival, so that even if you don't watch it Football's Brits can think of their names when they think back to those turbulent times.
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