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Help, the second Beatles film, is a brightly coloured pop collage, a melange of Marx Brothers comedy, cod oriental mayhem, inventive sight gags and imperial bric-a-brac. The film bubbles with Lester’s feeling about the era:
There was an enormous sense of optimism that I felt in England from 1962-63 until 1967, which is when it started to go wrong, it seems to me. During that time, the films had a sense of a response to a feeling that anything could be achieved, that the class structure was breaking down, that there was a new opportunity for the structure of life in England.
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