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The Gun Is Loaded
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The Gun Is Loaded

1989-12-16 · 35 min · ★ 5.0

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At the end of the Reagan years, rocker and confrontational performance artist Lydia Lunch launches a broadside. From a formal podium, she attacks the white male power structure of the US. Next she takes on her parents. Then, the volume lowered and the background the streets of New York, she lets us know what she thinks of life, of herself, and of us, anyone who's watching or listening. Life is depression, despair, and death. She's the girl next door gone bad. And us? Compliant sheep. Lunch lays out a challenge.

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Directors
Merrill Aldighieri, Joe Tripician
Production companies
Saturn's Core Audio & Video
Countries
United States of America
Status
Released

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Lydia LunchLydia LunchHerself

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