Reminiscent of Fat City, this is a funny movie about those placed on the political scrapheap because of their birth circumstances and who are given no incentive to improve their lives. Director Ken Loach's obvious empathy for his characters shines through the potentially-depressing material and the damaged lives that mostly choose to be nothing but self-willed failures with unrealizable dreams of escape from uneventful lives.
But the startling good humor that runs rampant through the film keeps depression at bay, along with the inevitable dreams of petty revenge attendant on the exploited condition of the UK poor and that country's feeble class relations.
Impeccably-acted (especially by Ricky TOMLINSON & Robert CARLYLE) by all concerned with well-drawn characters and all-too-believable situations.
Sunday 24 October 2010
Riff-Raff
(1991)
100%
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Science:
Sleep of Reason:
The dream of reason produces monsters. Imagination deserted by reason creates impossible, useless thoughts. United with reason, imagination is the mother of all art and the source of all its beauty.
(1746-1828), Spanish painter. Caption to Caprichos, number 43, a series of eighty etchings completed in 1798, satirical and grotesque in form.
Humans & Aliens:
I am human and let nothing human be alien to me.
(circa 190-159 BC), Roman dramatist. Chremes, in The Self-Tormentor [Heauton Timorumenos], act 1, scene 1.
Führerprinzip:
One leader, one people, signifies one master and millions of slaves… There is no organ of conciliation or mediation interposed between the leader and the people, nothing in fact but the apparatus - in other words, the party - which is the emanation of the leader and the tool of his will to oppress. In this way the first and sole principle of this degraded form of mysticism is born, the Führerprinzip, which restores idolatry and a debased deity to the world of nihilism.
(1913-60), French-Algerian writer & philosopher. The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt: New York: Vintage Books, (1984; page 182.)
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