Sid and Nancy by Alex Cox and Abbe Wool - 9 out of 10

Sid and Nancy by Alex Cox and Abbe Wool
9 out of 10


This film is about a complex and wide ranging as one can see.

If there are moments of sheer terror, gruesome squalor and we see the nadir of human existence, it seems, we are also overawed by moments like the embrace of the two lovers, somewhere near a drug selling place,  or among some destitute neighborhoods.
Sid is asking at one point:

'How long since we've had sex?
I don't remember' is the answer from Nancy, although maybe she said I don't know...

Nonetheless, their love appears to transcend the abjection in which they lived, especially, mainly or only because of the drugs they took with aplomb.
Thus, the overall sensation is bleak.

The public watches and learns what addiction can do to young people. 
I am not fan and thought the Sex Pistols and Sid Vicious are the last I want to hear, especially now, when I do have all the zest, curiously and love of learning of yesteryear.

Or so I thought.
Sid and Nancy may have proved that I am still twenty one in spirit.

For I loved the performance of My Way, adapted by Vicious.
If you search YouTube, you find that this is not some fabrication made for the movie.

It is good, perhaps much more than that, electrifying for the fans of the genre and funny to think what Sinatra or his public would think of the Sid take.
They surely would take their guns out and maybe even use them.

At times hilarious was the visitor the family of Nancy.
The relatives are appalled by the near vegetative state of the musician from the Sex Pistols.

The question:

'Are you going to make an honest woman out of her is responded with...
Nancy has always been honest with me' or something to that effect.

As stated, this motion picture is overwhelming in its complicated subject.
One moment you laugh at the his family visit, only to be horrified the next by some gruesome violence.

Although this is just a biopic and we look at scenes from the life of Sid Vicious and his lover, aggression seems to be the defining trait.
They fight very often and eventually inflict not just psychological, but physical pain.

Some of it is self inflicted.
Sid cuts his chest with a razor, in front of women fans, trying to write Nancy.

But then he would use a cutting instrument on her.
This is not the only violence, for he fights journalists, other band members, everybody really.

And then punk music is not about tender nights under the moon and George Michael rhythms.
Perhaps you would want to search the net for My Way...to get the Sid Vicious Way, even if you decide not to watch the movie.

Which is on The New York Times' Best 1,000 Movies Ever Made list.

https://www.listchallenges.com/new-york-times-best-1000-movies-ever-made/list/20