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Electricity is a 2014 British film directed by Bryn Higgins, starring Agyness Deyn, Lenora Crichlow and Christian Cooke. the film is about the journey seen through the eyes of a young woman with epilepsy. Electricity is an adaptation of the 2006 novel by Ray Robinson. It was produced in Saltburn-by-the-Sea in June 2013; some filming was carried out in London and in North East England. The film was released on 12 December 2014. Plot Lily O'Connor, a Northerner with epilepsy, finds out her brother, who she had believed to be dead, may be alive. She leaves her safe, routine life and goes to London to find him. Epilepsy colours her perceptions and the film shows how she views everyday objects and places as obstacles and dangers. Cast Agyness Deyn as Lily O'Connor Christian Cooke as Mikey O'Connor Paul Anderson as Barry O'Connor Alice Lowe as Sylvia Lenora Crichlow as Mel Tom Georgeson as Al Ben Batt as Dave Millie Taylforth as Young Lily Jake Gibbons as Young Mikey Melissa Sinden as Sylvia's mother Reception On review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 79% based on 19 reviews, with an average rating of 6.4/10.

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“Striking the electric chain wherewith we are darkly bound.”
— Lord Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto IV (1818), Stanza 23.
“We will make electricity so cheap that only the rich will burn candles.”
— Thomas Edison, in a statement to a reporter during the first public demonstration of his incandescent (31 December 1879), as quoted in Chronology of Americans and the Environment (2011) by Chris J. Magoc, p. 46.
“Without electricity, there can be no art.”
— Nam June Paik, in "Nam June Paik retrospective, Liverpool" by Emma O'Kelly in Wallpaper (20 December 2010).
“Go hug your girlfriend! Or if you don't have any, go find one! You won't find the meaning of life with electricity!”
— Pex Tufvesson, "Mahoney of "Kaktus & Mahoney" in an interview at Remix64 (26 September 2001).
“Notwithstanding my experiments with electricity the thunderbolt continues to fall under our noses and beards; and as for the tyrant, there are a million of us still engaged at snatching away his sceptre.”
— Benjamin Franklin, comment on Tubgot's inscription in a letter to Felix Nogaret, who translated the lines into French.
“Russia is the largest energy power. The country with a unique energy system, one of the leaders in generating electricity and supplying it to the global market. This is the result of your hard work and professionalism. Each of you (energy complex's worker and veteran) does everything to ensure that the country's energy system stays reliable.”
— Mikhail Mishustin (2021) cited in: "Russia is one of global leaders in electricity supplies — PM Mishustin" in TASS, 22 December 2021.

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Notable quotes

“Striking the electric chain wherewith we are darkly bound.”
— Lord Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto IV (1818), Stanza 23.
“We will make electricity so cheap that only the rich will burn candles.”
— Thomas Edison, in a statement to a reporter during the first public demonstration of his incandescent (31 December 1879), as quoted in Chronology of Americans and the Environment (2011) by Chris J. Magoc, p. 46.
“Without electricity, there can be no art.”
— Nam June Paik, in "Nam June Paik retrospective, Liverpool" by Emma O'Kelly in Wallpaper (20 December 2010).
“Go hug your girlfriend! Or if you don't have any, go find one! You won't find the meaning of life with electricity!”
— Pex Tufvesson, "Mahoney of "Kaktus & Mahoney" in an interview at Remix64 (26 September 2001).
“Notwithstanding my experiments with electricity the thunderbolt continues to fall under our noses and beards; and as for the tyrant, there are a million of us still engaged at snatching away his sceptre.”
— Benjamin Franklin, comment on Tubgot's inscription in a letter to Felix Nogaret, who translated the lines into French.
“Russia is the largest energy power. The country with a unique energy system, one of the leaders in generating electricity and supplying it to the global market. This is the result of your hard work and professionalism. Each of you (energy complex's worker and veteran) does everything to ensure that the country's energy system stays reliable.”
— Mikhail Mishustin (2021) cited in: "Russia is one of global leaders in electricity supplies — PM Mishustin" in TASS, 22 December 2021.

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