I attend a film class at Tyneside Cinema, and usually do a little bit of research about a film before i see it. I found that this movie was yet another British film about the class divide. (Oh Joy, another feel sorry for the poor people movie). Yet to my surprise the movie showed me far much more. It had what many British films have been lacking in a very interesting subject matter, that wasn't simply about feeling sorry for someone...
The story of Dean really touched me. Seeing him want to escape his lifestyle into something he knows nothing about, seeing him seem so faceless in the majority of the movie showing little personality and wanting to please so any people really thrust me into the movie and the motives behind it. He tells someone to call him nothing, because he's nobody. But eventually when he did what he had to do in order to find himself the movie ties together and you can't help but feel for him no matter how bad what he's done.
The movie doesn't play on money as much as the majority of British films on the topic, and Dean's reason for doing what he's doing gives the movie that much more a personal touch. The horrific deconstruction of Dean is amazing. The three screen divide is at times annoying, but at times it works well, the film does tend to drag a little also. But those two are my only negatives with this film.
The story of Dean really touched me. Seeing him want to escape his lifestyle into something he knows nothing about, seeing him seem so faceless in the majority of the movie showing little personality and wanting to please so any people really thrust me into the movie and the motives behind it. He tells someone to call him nothing, because he's nobody. But eventually when he did what he had to do in order to find himself the movie ties together and you can't help but feel for him no matter how bad what he's done.
The movie doesn't play on money as much as the majority of British films on the topic, and Dean's reason for doing what he's doing gives the movie that much more a personal touch. The horrific deconstruction of Dean is amazing. The three screen divide is at times annoying, but at times it works well, the film does tend to drag a little also. But those two are my only negatives with this film.