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Other films like Naked?


Not so much films that present a particular worldview or feature ranty characters or have a similar plot, but ones that share the 'transcendental rawness' that characterises Naked. If I said that Breaking the Waves, maybe that will help. Happiness could be another. Any more?

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Withnail & I which was made in 1987.

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Mike Leigh's own recent Happy Go Lucky comes to mind. Poppy is sort of the anti-Johnny.

The Wrestler also comes to mind. It has a real Mike Leigh vibe to it. And although Randy did have a family of sorts, and was not as angry or intellectual as Johnny, he was stuck in the same sort of way. Both films present a visceral experience for the viewer, and both end ambiguously. Randy and Johnny are both artists.

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Yeah, I recently saw The Wrestler and I can understand what you mean. The stark realism with surreal touches, and a protagonist who's both pathetic and heroic. I didn't like the sound of Happy Go Lucky when it came out but I'm increasingly hearing good things about it. Thanks.

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Slacker ('91)
Rhythm Thief ('94)

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Nil by Mouth (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119792/)



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"Keane" and "Clean, Shaven" by the very talented and underrated director Lodge Kerrigan. They're all gritty, improvosational and deal with the dark recesses of schizophrenia.

For anyone who really likes "Naked" I suggest you check out those movies immediately.

















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Happiness and it's sequel Life During Wartime are good options too.

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L'Argent (1983, Money) by Robert Bresson and the word 'transcendental rawness' quite well describes its thematics. It is a million times better than Naked, although I guess it is rather irrelevant to compare them. I do like Naked a lot, definately Leigh's best.

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This may seem a strange comparison but Tarkovskys Stalker to me has a similar feel. Its a man at the end of his Tether and the protagonist has a complex philosophical, intense world view.

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Would Gaspar Noe's "I Stand Alone" ("Seul Contre Tous") count, given that it also has a highly depressed, nihilistic and amoral lead character running away after committing violent crime and rambling about philosophy of life and hypocrisy of human nature? If so - then it IS a similar movie.

And in that film, we also despise AND feel sorry for him, paradoxically.

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