thought this was pretty rubbish apart from the off funny comment from the bloke in glasses. Acting terrible wooden. Whole film shot like some kind of public information film/soap opera. Very strange.
EDIT:- Also wasn't it a bit odd that a group of people in rehabilitation decide stealing is a good idea?
It wasn't exactly a hoot, but hey, this is the Loach take on comedy. It would have been even more odd if this group of misfits had decided that stealing was a bad idea.
shareCouldn't believe the reviews this show got either, it was average at best.
I don't know if we were expected to feel empathy for the central character or not, but i just saw him as the total modern day scum bag who wants everything for nothing.. and the film due fully obliged..
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Having the lead character's act of extreme violence redeemed so easily was the film's major flaw.
Then going on to become a light hearted, knock about comedy was just distasteful in the extreme.
And I say that as a Ken Loach fan who's loved most of his other films. This one was just horrible.
It was almost as if the first half was filmed in Scotland by Ken and then they brought in a team from Hollywood to finish it, complete with cheesy feel good ending.
I'm amazed that given the way the film ends, he didn't do something in the way of compensating the victim of his horrific crime. As for suggesting it was caused by him being coked up - that just seemed to be taking responsibility away from him for his actions. Pretty awful stuff. Never thought Ken would make a film like this whose hero is the sort of nasty scum who blight working class communities.
Well, what about Raining Stones? The protagonist engages in theft, is impulsive, and goes after immediate gratification instead of following the priest's advice. Then he gets rescued almost magically. Yet I loved it.
When you think of garbage, think of Hakim!
Yeah the £million fraud as a way of making a better life for himself and family didn't sit well with me and mine, not exactly one to grow on.
shareHow uplifting... another film about Britain's burgeoning underclass!
shareHaving the lead character's act of extreme violence redeemed so easily was the film's major flaw.
My thoughts exactly. I found it hard to sympathise with the protagonists at all because I saw him as a waste of space like his in-laws did. Not that unlikeable protagonists do not make for good films i.e. A Clockwork Orange, but it doesn't work in The Angels' Share.
I'd rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not.