In 2013, he directed a nostalgic documentary, "The Spirit of "45," about the expansion of welfare commitments under the postwar Labour administration, and what he views as their subsequent erosion, and you could argue that his real beef, in the latest movie, is not with government - when Dan had his heart attack, for instance, he would have received free treatment on the National Health Service - but with the complex and unwieldy apparatus of government, referred to by Dan as a "monumental farce."