A Socialist Of Champagne

I saw another very thought provoking old film for probably the 3rd time last late night on Spanish TV, 'The Servant' based on Harold Pinter's work. Another great name author and playwright in the literary world for more than 4 decades who had sadly passed away, leaving his unforgettable name, and his 32 famous work, many poems and novels, rich legacy that had delighted in the theatre goers and connoisseurs of fine literature. Without a doubt for the whole new generation too as his kind of literature is mature grace yet ageless.

Backbone of British theatres and Nobel of Literature winner in 2005, when he had already been diagnosed of cancer back in 2002, Harold Pinter passed away at the age of 78 at Christmas Eve in 2008. Many of his memorable works had been played out in theatres and films like 'The birthday feast', 'Going home', 'The night porter', 'The servant' 'Nobody's land' and 'The room', but to name a few.

Some of his enemies called him 'A socialist of Champagne', referring to his political views in his later years, and his acid criticism of George W. Bush, Tony Blair and Margaret Thatcher, and the Iraq war, asking for Bush and Blair to be prosecuted for their crime against humanity, and attacked the external policies of America and Britain. He once said that the most shameful thing he had ever done was having reluctantly voted for Thatcher, whom he later smashed to smithereens in his writings.

His political views, bias perhaps, but for me his merit rests on his insight of human nature and his style of writing, outstanding, unique and most entertaining, manifested in his sharp humour and intelligent construction of story plots, sparkling dialogues and bitter sweet twist and turns, all with great humour that let's you savour the play, movie or books long after you have finished viewing them. Years after. His script of Losey's work 'The servant' is probably one of the most poignant show of his sarcasm of life and human weakness.

I love every single one of his works I have either read or seen on the screen or stage, probably all the 3 media!

 

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