In the 50s, subcultures became popular in Britain.
These cultural groups, mainly young people, rebelled in different ways against the dominant traditional culture adhered to by their parents.
In order to maintain social stability, the British authorities used British radio to control broadcasting, ignoring people's preferences and broadcasting only content under their will.
Determined to fight back, the rebel-labelled rockers set up radio stations that played pop and rock music through private ships or abandoned bunkers, from which pirate radio came from.
Among the many pirate radios, Radio Caroline is more famous, and together with other pirate radios, it has pushed rock music from underground to the mainstream.
The fire on Pirate Radio, which allowed advertisers to flock to make a lot of money without paying taxes to the authorities, undoubtedly upset the balance.
At the same time, it also eroded the market share of British radio stations, harmed the interests of record companies, and made many young people rise up against their parents, and the stable structure of society was broken.
In order to outlaw pirate radio, the British authorities made it illegal and enacted the Maritime Broadcasting (Offences) Act, which became law in 1967.
The introduction of this law made Pirate Radio disappear from the past, no longer as dense as before, and in the decades that followed, although occasionally, it was also scattered, and the story of the movie "Pirate Radio" was taken from here.
It's just that "Pirate Radio" is obviously a movie with a threshold.
Not so obsessed with rock and roll, or not experienced in the 60s, just heard about it, but not yearning, Pirate Radio may not be your thing.
It's just a word-of-mouth work among the many utopian works that pursue resistance and advocate freedom, it doesn't look so tired, and you can hear a lot of rock works.
The idealist in the film is a review and tribute to the director's youth.
At that time, youth was just right, yearning for unrestrained, not regulated by dogma, and wild rock was the best emotional outlet, so rock became a symbol of that era, and rock had more attitude than the Beat generation.
It was the best era of art, when everyone was in a hotbed of suffering, dissatisfied with reality, scornful of the system, and dismissive of the future.
Young people unleash their talents, let their imaginations come to fruition, exercise the life they want to live in an eclectic manner, and let it become art, but art cannot be completely free after all.
Pirate radio ships are allowed except for words that begin with an F.
Here, you can talk about sex as you like, confide openly, play cool with bohemians, like what you love without restrictions, refuse jazz and classical, and listen exclusively to pop and rock.
This freedom is the most provocative and has moved countless people.
No one wants to be the same, two o'clock a day, living a life that is arranged to follow the rules.
No one is willing to live a mediocre life, but they still say that ordinary is precious, from aspiring young people to passable, nodding and making a scene.
When someone exhales, even if the footsteps still stop in place, their hearts have already been touched.
Who does not yearn for poetry and distant places, who wants to work from 9 to 5, dreams gradually wear out, turn around and bump into reality, firewood, rice, oil and salt.
However, if you are indoctrinated with similar isms, you will inevitably have accidents, and do things that go out of line for the sake of freedom, at best, alone, or at worst, lead to revolution.
We are all laymen who lived for food and well, and grew up under the influence of collectivism and Confucianism.
The understanding of resistance and freedom is not so excessive, seeking only a day without worrying about money, so many times prefer to sacrifice freedom, agree with obedience, as long as the snow does not fall on their heads, regardless of the frost on others.
After many years of obedience, the change of thoughts, the awakening of behavior, the doctrine promoted by Pirate Radio is contrary to the doctrine we grew up with.
For a while, this doctrine also grew wildly around us, and influenced generations of young people, and now it is mostly back underground, not welcomed by the mainstream.
The mainstream is afraid of the young people of freedom, the young people of rebellion, and they must stifle these indulgences.
Just like the authorities in the movie, if it is not illegal, then make a law, and also make pirate radio illegal.
Even if young people were crazy about pirate radio, even to rescue the crew members who had sunken ships despite legal constraints, the authorities were indifferent and would not launch an official rescue and would bury them all at sea.
So, what exactly is freedom and what is resistance?
In terms of movies, freedom is to do whatever you want, in order to be with someone you like, you can marry other people, but only keep the marriage relationship, there is no husband and wife.
Resist is to leave me alone, the authorities do not agree with Pirate Radio, then swear back and continue to spread rock like crazy.
The spirit does not die, rock does not die, let the followers stop following the steps, life has no attitude, just like the West lost Jerusalem.
But this kind of freedom and resistance can easily form turmoil, so that the operation of society is stagnant, and when it encounters unwillingness, it does not do it, and lives by nature all day long.
Over time, ethics and morality collapse, the miasma spreads, the social system collapses, and the law may become a decoration, and everything is based on freedom.
So, what exactly is freedom and what is resistance?
To be managed, trained, and preached, you cannot be driven by personality, but must appeal within a reasonable range.
But the result is that everyone lives as they are, do not see the diversity of the world, only listen, do not know how to think independently.
Eventually, the information cocoon is formed, and the yearning for the outside world will not stop, and there will be a trend of intensification, and contradictions will arise from this, and opposition will arise from this.
This is how the world contradicts itself.
While calling for freedom and freedom, on the other hand, it is suppressed by various isms, allowing idealists to appear and disappear, and it is precisely because of this contradiction that freedom is valuable and never obsolete.
Like the sinking ship in the film, the carrier of freedom is gone, but the spirit of freedom has been injected into people's hearts.
Repeatedly, the spark, the fire and extinguished, the idealist never dies, pay tribute to every fire thief, maybe the fire will be faint, but it will not always be faint.