"How in the name a' f@*k, can we get a donkey away up ther!?"
Brief break in the Hitchcock - it's coming, I swear. Just watched this...
'The Angel's Share'
...twice.
Loved it.
Ken Loach is a wonderful director. Not in the same the way perhaps that I've talked about Hitchcock (IT'S COMIN'!!!) or Wong Kar-Wai or Orson Welles. Ken Loach succeeds because he loves people. He can get performances from actors that have never, or barely, worked before that other directors can't coax from actors that have done the job for years (look at Paul Brannigan in the scene at the TASC). In this film he, and the equally wonderful writer Paul Laverty, also show how comedy doesn't need to be over exaggerated and can be firmly situated in 'real' life, in circumstances we can all understand, as well as being sympathetic to it's subjects, and not feeling the need to be abusive or condescending to them or us. They bring the people usually frowned upon by society and those usually looked upon as the stalwarts of society onto a level playing field in an amusing, sensitive and charming way, where no one seems to be fully judged (although some are given more time and so probably more credence).
The beautiful way the film suggests how important craftsmanship is and uses that to bridge a gap between the two poles of society, neither work and are arguably often not seen as part of society (because one is judged as being below and the other judges itself as being above) and perhaps suggesting that this is how a society works. People shouldn't feed off one other but utilise one another to the benefit of each other, that is a society. Backgrounds are exactly that, people can stand out from them or blend into them but shouldn't be judged by them (books/covers, pot/kettles that kinda stuff).
Lovely film, lovely outlook. Give it and everyone a chance. J
'The Angel's Share'
...twice.
Loved it.
Ken Loach is a wonderful director. Not in the same the way perhaps that I've talked about Hitchcock (IT'S COMIN'!!!) or Wong Kar-Wai or Orson Welles. Ken Loach succeeds because he loves people. He can get performances from actors that have never, or barely, worked before that other directors can't coax from actors that have done the job for years (look at Paul Brannigan in the scene at the TASC). In this film he, and the equally wonderful writer Paul Laverty, also show how comedy doesn't need to be over exaggerated and can be firmly situated in 'real' life, in circumstances we can all understand, as well as being sympathetic to it's subjects, and not feeling the need to be abusive or condescending to them or us. They bring the people usually frowned upon by society and those usually looked upon as the stalwarts of society onto a level playing field in an amusing, sensitive and charming way, where no one seems to be fully judged (although some are given more time and so probably more credence).
Lovely film, lovely outlook. Give it and everyone a chance. J
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