The Old Oak (2023)
4/10
Not This Time...
3 November 2023
Loach is one of the most important names that made me love cinema. A Loach film immediately reveals itself. A Loach film is not a British film, it's a Loach film.

This film is not very different from the films made by a liberal British filmmaker for the bbc.

Loach's trademark unique narrative language is absent in this film.

There is not even a script integrity. In fact, there are gaps in between, as if the film was two and a half hours long but reduced to 110 minutes.

For example, details such as the fact that people who looked at Syrians as scum until the day before suddenly went to the funeral as if they had mastered Syrian culture...

The anti-Bashar al-Assad remarks of our Syrian character as if they were written just to indicate the political position of the British...

I couldn't understand why Kes chose such a way to say goodbye to cinema 60 years after his film.

Poverty, workers' rights, poor people struggling to survive against state fascism are the main details of a Loach film, but in this film they are just details that seem to be mentioned for the sake of being mentioned and turned into grinning details.

If I wanted to watch a film by a liberal Englishman, I would watch the films of Englishmen who work for Hollywood.

Loach was our harbour of refuge against these people.

Also; It is a complete hypocrisy that the Westerners, who watch the Syrians sink their boats and die, who expel the Syrians fleeing to their countries to Turkey under inhumane conditions, have recently made films about Suirian refugees.

I especially mention this because the BBC, which does not report on these issues, is among the producers of this film.
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