Same, I was completely enthralled by the tone of the film as parts of it - particularly the garden party scene featuring a playlist of 00s Electro House - seemed so familiar, yet as the film progressed, I realised this period of time is now somewhat culturally distant. Apparently the director...
The film is set in 2006 when the state school intake for Oxbridge was sitting around 50% (as it had done throughout most of the 80s, 90s and 00s), it's only since 2017 that the intake percentages have swung away, somewhat dramatically, from the public schools (see here, page 4).
Andrew Ryce, enemy of @thirdform and hated by @Corpsey, has interviewed DJ Flight on this era for Resident Adviser
Resident Adviser: A History of 2000s Drum & Bass in Ten Tracks
Yes - Germany has two particularly horrendous examples in the form of Berlin Brandenburg Airport and the Stuttgart 21 project, although scrapping HS2's northern branches and then terminating what remains at Old Oak Common will outdo both in terms of money spent vis-à-vis misery inflicted...
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