If you just focus on that part...yeah, kinda dreary...but I like the period it covers, that Mod vs Rockers thing, and also that it was shot in black & white.
I've always been partial to B&W movies...like all the old movies from '30s/'40s/'50s...but I really like the ones that cover the early '60s, and the ones that came out of England/Ireland that cover the post WWII years in the late '50s and early '60s all have a certain dark vibe to them...usually about working class people trying to get by in a very minimalist way.
Oh...I generally like most good movies, regardless of the period or the years they were made...and I also really like the epic movies, in color and "big" cinematography....but even it's something "quirky", as long as it draws you in, I'll watch most any kind of movies.
What I find less and less appealing are the predominantly computer generated movies. There's some that are meant to be fantasy (like the Rings trilogy) but I don't care when they just let the graphics people fill in all the shots, and there's no cinematography to speak of...which tends to be most movies these days.
Also getting pretty bored with all the "Marvel" superhero crap...it's so done to death, that it's of no more interest to me...and don't get me started on the zombie and vampire garbage. I mean...ENOUGH already...please...no more walking dead, blood sucking, flesh eating crap. Once you've seen about a thousand of them
every nuance has been covered.
Right now I'm watching an old B&W British movie from 1962..."The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner"...which I haven't seen in like a million years.
Talk about a somewhat dreary movie, but there's something more there under the superficially gloominess.
One thing that always sticks out with the old movies from the '40s/'50s/'60s...is how the young people in their teens and twenties all wore jackets and ties most of the time when they went out ...and of course, adults were always dress like that, at work and at home. It was only under certain circumstances that people didn't dress neat and trim. They took note of their appearance, especially when in public. You didn't see any "Walmart shopper" dress codes back then!