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Another Mother's Son (2017)
A serious tale, poorly realised.
Hundreds of pows, enslaved Russians and Spanish workers held behind tall,barbed wire fences, starved and beaten by the Todt organisation, not 20 well fed men carrying the odd rock. Jersey, a ubiquitous landscape with granite farmhouses with walls edging every field. Home to a mostly rural population, having to farm twice as hard because the Germans took food for themselves. Locals who spoke in their own Jerriais dialect of Norman French to irritate the occupiers and spoke with a distinctive accent when speaking English.
Appallingly no attempt whatsoever, to represent the uniqueness of an increasingly forgotten language and way of life and the associated culture that was the backdrop to this story, nor any attempt at realistic dialogue. The direction is so stilted, that I only struggled through this because I wanted to see how these events, which I was already aware of, were depicted.
A missed oppurtunity.
Filth (2013)
Ideal for the more enlightened individual.
McAvoy dominates this easily with a faultless supporting cast, especially Eddie Marsan and Jim Broadbent. This film is not to be approached as an easy "let it wash over me", movie. The first half of FILTH should be considered an initiation. If you can stomach the apparent gratuitously open prejudice then you will be in a better position to appreciate the depth of the character and the range of the issues being represented. Filth is a tour de force in the realm of depictions of uncomfortable truth. The presentation into a decline of an individual's mental health whilst in a position of responsibility, in a system of diseased social hierarchy is uncompromising, illustrating a Laingian perspective. Any self proclaimed student of human nature should not let this film pass them by, absolutely magnificent!