Director: Peter Mullan ---
Main Cast: Connor McCarron, Steven Robertson, Martin Bell, Marcus Nash, David McKay. ---
Argument: Glasgow, 1973. John McGill is about to start high school.
is a smart guy, sensitive, eager to learn, but nothing seems to favor him. His family is very poor and his father, whom he hates, a drunkard and a brute.
Teachers are against from the beginning, and he was punished for the "sins" of his older brother, Benny. The Neds, "uneducated and criminals." Armed bad guys and pimps: cheap drugs, glam rock, sex, violence and camaraderie. Monsters and local heroes.
's reputation for protecting her brother Benny. Frightened, resentful and angry, John makes a decision. If anyone wants to give it a try, fuck that! He dives into the wild life of the street.
Anger and frustration carrying him farther, to be alone against a blank wall. No future.
And then comes an unexpected and extraordinary opportunity to redeem . ---
My opinion: Film winning the Golden Shell for best film at the prestigious International Film Festival of Donostia (San Sebastian) 2010 is, however, and despite their obvious interest, a film that fails to convince entirely.
This is, again, an interesting exercise in social films of the early seventies, in a particular place, Glasgow, Scotland, where youth violence in the form of bands, due to the tremendous politico-socio-labor the moment, with a great crisis of work disenchantment identity crisis and debauchery, create tremendous difficulties for the future of smart guys and girls could go far, even through college, finally get their goals.
All this is narrated with strength but with notable defects pace and script, not having a perfect continuity, but to go, or so sometimes seems to wander.
This makes it quite irregular, with very intense moments filled with great dramatic force, with others that seem implausible even in spite of its obvious plausibility. In addition, the director and actor Peter Mullan , talks about what he actually met a young man, so he could have demanded a little more passion in what he narrates. It seems that such was his approach, but leave some distance and let the characters speak for him.
Although the Festival of Donostia, the press pass, this is not appreciated enough, it seems that the jury did, that gave the first prize.
Congratulations, you now have to wait and see what the public says, now that been released.
This makes it quite irregular, with very intense moments filled with great dramatic force, with others that seem implausible even in spite of its obvious plausibility. In addition, the director and actor Peter Mullan , talks about what he actually met a young man, so he could have demanded a little more passion in what he narrates. It seems that such was his approach, but leave some distance and let the characters speak for him.
Although the Festival of Donostia, the press pass, this is not appreciated enough, it seems that the jury did, that gave the first prize.
Congratulations, you now have to wait and see what the public says, now that been released.
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