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Never or Now!
21:56 / 28.08.08
Just watched this and I really want to gosh about it. A neat snapshot of modern England, at its nastiest it's like The Filth minus even that series's spi-fi punk refuge; here is all sadism in schoolyards, cars cars cars temper temper, good ol' Mr. Wimpey's homes, blitz of the spirit. It's not really like that so much though because there's The Invisibles in there, not the people necessarily who read The Great Work but the people George was writing about, poor sods battling Yuppie gods; good teachers, social workers, they giggle through dance-classes and crack jokes when their bicycle gets stolen. It's a good film. The same sensuous pleasure you maybe got from Amelie but with none of that film's easiness.
 
 
Seth
01:42 / 29.08.08
Yeah! Yeah! Yeah!
 
 
The Idol Rich
09:09 / 29.08.08
Thought it was ok and everything but a bit Leigh by numbers, right down to the mandatory guy-losing-it-and-shouting-a-lot scene. Decent performances from everyone and it improved a lot after a horribly forced start which made me fear that I wouldn't be able to sit through the whole thing but I couldn't really get that excited about it to be honest.
 
  
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