Absolute Beginners
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:03:04
Nobody knew exactly why.
:03:06
But after so many dreary years
of bombs and blitz and slow rebuilding...

:03:11
no sugar, no jam, nothing sweet anywhere...
:03:14
with the whole English world
dressed in gray, it seemed, forever.

:03:19
Suddenly life broke out
in warm colors again...

:03:21
so young and beautiful that a lot of people
couldn't stand to look at it.

:03:26
For the first time ever, kids were teenagers.
:03:30
We had loot, however come by.
:03:32
And loot's for spending.
:03:34
And where there's loot, trouble follows.
:03:40
During my last teenage year,
I kept myself by taking photographs.

:03:44
Naughty pictures for profit.
:03:46
And solid street pictures for love.
:03:49
So that when the blossom went off,
and the flower turned to plastic...

:03:53
me and my friends
could remember how it looked.

:03:56
Money for looks. Money for film.
:03:59
But most of all, money for Suzette.
:04:02
My beautiful Crepe Suzette.
:04:03
Don't be late, Colin.
:04:17
- What, no trousers, Ken?
- That"s fine with me.

:04:19
Yeah, this is England. Go back home.
:04:31
Come on. Is this enough?
:04:33
All right. Fifty quid.
But that"s for two of you, right?

:04:38
- Where to, girls?
- Mandy"s house.

:04:43
You bitches, where are you going?
:04:45
It was England all right,
but very un-English.

:04:48
Every class, every income, every kink.
:04:50
Boys, girls, black, white, yellow,
bent, versatile...

:04:55
all on equal terms.

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