Has anybody else seen keep the aspidistra flying?

I liked it although I didn't get it: what is orwell trying to say? I get either feeling from orwell's volumes, without an 'xclusion of The Road To Wigan Pier.

Has anybody else seen keep the aspidistra flying?
I read it a while back and remember liking it. It's about the need for money
Reply:Certainly 'Keep the Aspidistra Flying' has been made into a movie - it was made in 1997 and starred Richard E. Grant as Gordon Comstock and Helena Bonham Carter as Rosemary.





The book and film are semi-autobiographical, and depict Gordon, who wants to be published as a poet, slowly being forced into what he (and presumably Orwell) saw as wage-slavery, giving up all the ideas of his radical youth in order to earn a regular wage.
Reply:I assume you mean the George Orwell book. I read it ages ago. If it's been made into a movie, I haven't heard of it.
Reply:I saw that film but not all the way through as I got bored with it. I preferred the book. I thought the book was all about the need for money to make life bearable, and having to worship the money god. A common theme in Orwell's 1930s novels was the state of the country then, and how he felt it would be blown away by bombs.