Review of Quadrophenia

'Quadrophenia' is pretty much a like it or hate movie, and understandably so considered a cult classic. This is a movie that largely focuses on one rather eccentric young man who is party to the ongoing nonsense rivalry between Mods and Rockers in the mid 60s. Although the soundtrack is quite good, largely with tracks from The Who (the title comes from a Who album), the story, at least for me (since I have little interest in or sympathy for the story's arrogant young characters) is quite dull. True, one might identify with the lead's impatience for the distance between he and his parents, or the mundane work detail as a mailroom clerk, or that he can't seem to hang on to the girl he desires whenever they meet, or the contest for attention between he and the 'head' mod (played with little emotion by Sting), but unless you want to watch a character drown himself in his miseries and not do much else, then you probably won't have much fun with this film. Not to mention the poor sound quality that prevents much of the early dialogue from being heard. Nonetheless, it is one of the few (if not only) movies that I have seen that was about mod.