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    If you have an hour or so here's the Joyce classic that they said couldn't be filmed.... and the Irish film censor of the day wished it hadn't.

    The film adaptation of James Joyce's Ulysses is excellent. The actors, the voice overs, the direction, it all captures the feel of the novel without sacrificing its own merits. Milo O'Shea does an excellent job as Leopold Bloom, the cuckolded man married to the sassy Molly.

    It certainly helps to have read the original text before viewing the film. I imagine the latter would seem disjointed, with very odd episodes apparently randomly stitched together, without a prior reading of the text to help grasp the plot.

    It's amazing to see how "filthy" the film is, given that it was shot in Dublin in 1967. The Irish film censors only, finally, unbanned it for viewing by general audiences in Ireland as late as 2000 (it was shown to restricted audiences in a private cinema club, the Irish Film Theatre, in the late 1970s).

    Joyce's eroticism is not simply naturalistic and raunchy, it offers many wildly "perverse" episodes. Never mind that so many of these fetishes were unacceptable when the book was published in 1922 - they were still utterly taboo when the film was made in 1967.

    It is astonishing and heartening to watch the cream of the Irish acting profession of the 1960s, respected players all, daring to utter and enact Joyce's hugely transgressive text with such gusto.

    Oh did I mention that you'll see quite a few Dublin street scenes of 1966 - 67? And a small part was even filmed inside the old Irish House pub (now disgracefully demolished).

    Anyway.... despite the fact that You Tube insist on all videos being cut down to about 10 minute clips, the whole movie is here.... sure I didn't mind sweating over a hot computer for hours cutting, uploading, checking, not to mention fighting with YT just for our friends in dublinforum.net.

    ..........enjoy.
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