Ultra High Performance Vs Grand Touring

My neighborhood, my country ...

From time to time, the moviegoer feels the need to get away from the big movie sagas of our time, with its stunning scenery and amazing visual effects, and dive a little on the old black and white, to unearth jewelry in a time that good stories should go where not reach the technical limitations of time. Stories like this:

Passport to Pimlico, 1947 year film studies Ealing, directed by Henry Cornelius . British humor in its purest form a biting satire on the cheap jingoism, as only the English are capable of accomplishing. We are in the post-war London, Pimlico, a working class neighborhood. By blowing up an unexploded German bomb from the recent war, he discovers a secret basement, which appears a treasure of the fifteenth century. Together with gold and jewels, is a chest containing documents. Reviewed these documents, you discover that the treasure belonged to the Duke of Burgundy Charles the Bold, historically presumed dead in the battle of Nancy, which led to the annexation of the duchy to France, but according to those documents would have managed to flee secretly to England, where the king granted him refuge and land, and the right to such lands were considered sovereign territory hereinafter Burgundy. The same land upon which now stands the Pimlico district, which under unearthed document, and never revoked, is legally the last remnant of the ancient Duchy of Burgundy, an independent state in of London.

From here, absurdity ensues. The next night the patrons of the place, encouraged by the beer, forcing the landlord to keep open the local pub after closing time required, and when you have the police to vacate the premises, refuse to do so, claiming that they are a foreign country, and therefore do not have to obey the laws of England. But the next morning the joke is not so funny, when the neighborhood appears taken by hordes of black marketeers, who come to openly sell all kinds of black market goods in the streets, and now is the police who refused to intervene because no jurisdiction in the duchy of Burgundy. From here the events are entangling, high politics is mixed in the case, and everything keeps getting more and more absurd, giving us the most grotesque scenes, as only the English humor is able to achieve: one customs in the middle of the street where a police officer responds to a lady, irritated at having to make a long tail and submit their documentation to shop at your store ever, with a phlegmatic: "Madam, I have no fault you go shopping abroad, "the neighbors cutting subway route that runs through the neighborhood, and breaking into cars for passengers to have passports, using the seal of the local grocery store as a visa, the neighborhood block by London police when negotiations with the neighbors, soon to come in case the opportunity to make improvements to the neighborhood, twist, and the clever tricks used by the local residents, and their supporters outside it, to break the lock (priceless scene parachuted pork) A funny movie that will make you think of a polite way but smart about how absurd it can be politics.

view it before I strongly recommend to hear some political news. In order to be, containing the statements of some nationalist politician, swollen with patriotic fervor. That will enhance the mood of the film, and appreciate it a lot better.