nobbythenob
Feeling Old
A Great film
Vera Drake - Great Film
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quality film.
Depressing. But High Class.
Depressing. But High Class.
DrRingDing
'anti-human wanker'
It looked far too dreary and depressing to motivate me to watch.
nobbythenob
Feeling Old
try it..plus it's ours not that shit yank crap.DrRingDing said:
On another note.
What a fucking pile of shit country we live in, it has not moved on from this.
And the nasty shit that went on and still go's on in other forms
mentalchik
"I say we take off and nuke the site from orbit."
Just watched it and although not a cheery subject matter well worth watching. Brilliant performances all round, excellent film.
Mrs Magpie
On a bit of break...
I've been described as Vera Drake without the abortions....haven't seen the film but I hope it was a compliment.....
madzone
Physically unfavourable
Brokeback? No, haven't read it. I don't quite know how I felt about the film. I found it really depressing that someone could be openly murdered for being homosexual in the early 80's but I think the actors managed to convey the absolute love they had for each other. It didn't leave me feeling very happysojourner said:
nobbythenob said:
'We'** haven't moved on since the Fifties?
About abortion specifically? Or social attitudes generally? Or what?**'We' in that sense, all encompassing, insultingly generalising : word that always rankles with me when used like that -- the coercive 'we'! I am not part of your 'we' ...
Get a grip mate, looks like you're being far too negative and miserable ...
Missed this film, but would have liked to have seen it. Things have improved MASSIVELY since the fifties (social attitude wise) in all sorts of respects. The things that have got worse are entirely different .....
(Brokeback Mountain people -- start yer own bleedin thread ...
)I'd recommend you read it (but then I would say that wouldn't I?).madzone said:Brokeback? No, haven't read it. I don't quite know how I felt about the film. I found it really depressing that someone could be openly murdered for being homosexual in the early 80's but I think the actors managed to convey the absolute love they had for each other. It didn't leave me feeling very happy
Well, it's dealing with reality mate, and reality often isn't very fluffy eh?
Urbane Worrier
a scuttler scuttling
You should have watched Vera Drake because Brokeback Mountain is being shown again on Tuesday Sky Movies 3 at 10.30pm.madzone said:
Reno
The In Kraut
madzone said:Brokeback? No, haven't read it. I don't quite know how I felt about the film. I found it really depressing that someone could be openly murdered for being homosexual in the early 80's but I think the actors managed to convey the absolute love they had for each other. It didn't leave me feeling very happy
People still get murdered for being gay now, even in London.
billy_bob
Air of bewilderment model's own
I'm sick to the back teeth of Mike Leigh and his ridiculous cliched salt-of-the-earth pull-together-in-a-crisis working class characters. Not quite as pathetically one-dimensional as his emotionally frigid ideal-home-exhibition champagne drinking middle class cliches, but bad enough.
This one was worse than most though. The film portrays Drake's actions as an apparently instinctive desire to do right by people and help girls in trouble, then betrays her when she's 'caught' by having her gawp and snivel her way through the rest of the film, completely unable to offer a coherent justification or display any kind of defiance. I appreciate that in the face of the (white, male, upper class) 'establishment' this might be the case, but could she not of said something even when her gormless son was slagging her off.
Really
-ed me off it did.
This one was worse than most though. The film portrays Drake's actions as an apparently instinctive desire to do right by people and help girls in trouble, then betrays her when she's 'caught' by having her gawp and snivel her way through the rest of the film, completely unable to offer a coherent justification or display any kind of defiance. I appreciate that in the face of the (white, male, upper class) 'establishment' this might be the case, but could she not of said something even when her gormless son was slagging her off.
Really
-ed me off it did.
Reno
The In Kraut
billy_bob said:
Vera and her family were so exaggerated, with a bit of fur on their feet they could have passed for Hobbits. I'm not a Mike Leigh fan myself and thought this was one of his worst films, full of two dimensional caricatrures and so overtly manipulative I found it difficult to take much of it seriously.
