Bizarre, loosely conceived sequel to IF..., in which Malcolm McDowell again plays Mick Travis, now a Candide-like coffee salesman bent on achieving corporate success. Travis's Kafkaesque, state-of-the-nation odyssey takes in a businessmen's sex club; a military camp where he's arrested and
tortured; a medical research center where experiments include attaching a human head to a pig's body; an affair with the hippie daughter (Helen Mirren) of a corrupt industrialist (Ralph Richardson); and a scheme involving the sale of Napalm to an African nation that lands Travis in prison.
A variety of framing and distancing devices give a determinedly modernist dimension to T...
Released:
1973
Rated:
R
Length:
186 mins