It’s the late ’80s in “Blue Jean,” the debut film from British director Georgia Oakley. The decade is remembered for, amongst other things, its promotion of wealth and excess, a process helped by the king and queen of neo-liberalism: Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher.
The latter has just helped to usher in Section 28, a draconian series of laws banning the “promotion of homosexuality” (the law wasn’t revoked until 2003).
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