My wife and I saw this over the release weekend thought it was the best piece of cinema we have seen in decades. Loach and the writer have created a masterpiece. The film is very moving and upsetting at times. It has no Hollywood-style 'Everything will be alright in the end' moments in it, but does provide hope. It shows the appalling treatment some of the Syrian refugees received but it also shows you the other side - the ex-Coal mining villagers savagely destroyed by Thatcher. Everyone should watch this, it should be shown in schools quite frankly. Maybe it will make people (and government ministers) think about what others might be going through, maybe it will people care more about others.
Review of The Old Oak
