Final Michael Caine/Brenda Blethyn scene....

Was just watching it, so thought I'd translate for you:

RAY: "Stop clinging will ya, you're all over me all the time like the bloody pox!"
MARI: "Don't spoil it Raymondo! We go so well together."
RAY: "We go nowhere. For a start, you're past it. Your body's gone. When your clothes go I can't keep track of it, it's all over the place! There's no way that you're coming with me, and her, to better things, no way. LV! YOU GOT TEN *beep*' SECONDS!"
LV: "I'm tired of getting the fuzzy end of the lollipop."
RAY: "All you're doing, is getting in the way. You were in the way the first night I heard her - and you're still in the way now. Christ. Do you think I don't have birds I go to? Don't you think it's like putting my face in flowers, after you? You've had it Mari. For God's, sake, wise up woman eh? Eh? And *beep* off."

Chalice

That's why God made subtitles.

It's a brilliant scene, awful as it is. Brenda Blethyn's face portrays Mari's emotions so well.
Yes, I agree that her acting was over-the-top in a lot of the film, but there are plenty over-the-top people like that around. For me, she got it exactly right.

Brenda Blethyn sounded more like Hilda Baker, a Lancashire comedienne than a Yorkshire woman. Yes, she played it over the top, but the whole film was over the top rather than realistic and she played it so perfectly you could smell the cheap scent. I am surw that she'd had similar brush offs in the past.

I have known women exactly like her - they hang out in the sleaziest bars in town nursing a soda until someone picks them up and suddenly their are drinking fancy cocktails. They neglect their children and yell at them all the time, but when a man walks into range they turn on all their false charm.