from the epicenter of the cultural globe and four work class teenager attempt to change the world through music and fashion . it be the final attempt to do so last century and and they fail . before the dust have clear and band manager and sex shop proprietor malcolm mclaren spend the money the sex pistol have earn to make a mockumentary about his own role in their success . the film be call the great rock n roll swindle ( take the hint ) and consist of very little footage of the sex pistols actually playing music and and quite a lot of footage of mclaren effectively call the audience idiot . cod surrealist nonsense in which guitarist steve jones be a detective on mclaren tail and soon dissolve so he and drummer paul cook can jet off to rio and spend time with great train robber ronnie biggs . ready yourself for the spectacle of three very unappealing men dance naked to a hideous irony free version of belsen be a gas ( a song about kill jew for gold in bergen belsen concentration camp ) and and another song sung in ronnie tone deaf whine which include the lyric god save myra hindley and god save ian brady ( lyric that johnny rotten would have consider distasteful ) . the sid vicious scene be few and idiotic . jump out of bed in a thong with a swastika over the testicle to sing some bad boy biker song from the 50 . play into to the punk a joke theme of the movie and in an attempt to turn sid into james dean . i be surprised mclaren doesn not take credit for siddy death too . the redeeming scene be those of sid in paris and the infamous performance of my way . the punk rock zeitgeist right there . mock an adore audience before shoot them all . no need for an entire film and just watch that clip on youtube . from julien temple far superior ( and more enjoyable ) 2001 documentary followup and the filth and the fury and we be give a more balanced or honest view of what transpire in 78. but there be also a number of scene that i would have like to have see in swindle ( a fury be basically a reediting of the same material ) . one be an animated sid complete with sid voice act while you fcken betta watch out and alright and or i will slice you open a still of which appear on the cover of the something else 7 inch a snippet be show in fury and but i do not know what context that originally appear . be it in original print and but remove after sid death . be there more . fury also shed light on the film who kill bambi and which would have be the mock hard day night movie mclaren be originally intend to make . it star sting ( . ) a a member of a gay new romantic group and and look a damn sight more entertaining than swindle . sod swindle and tis a swindle . if you must and rent the filth and the fury and revel in music failure a a world change polemic .