Civilization and Its Discontents
- Media type
- Film
Civilization and Its Discontents · Civilization and Its Discontents · MOVIE
1962
About this title
Riffing on Freud, Civilization and Its Discontents is “about a cleansing energy applied to a fallen world. But this time the mode is self-mocking satire. A poet of lye and laughing gas, Morrissey has concocted a new genre: slapstick neorealism.” (Donald Lyons)