Eden Lake
I thought this was a good start to the weekend, nice to see a british film with such excellent visual and actorly qualities. But then I also agree with MaxRenn about the class message.
The scene of the Nice Couple looking at the Horrible Families when they stop for food :roll my eyes:
As I said on the way out "Working class East Midlanders are scum ! I am never going to the Midlands again !"
The scene of the Nice Couple looking at the Horrible Families when they stop for food :roll my eyes:
As I said on the way out "Working class East Midlanders are scum ! I am never going to the Midlands again !"
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AdeBrown wrote:I thought this was a good start to the weekend, nice to see a british film with such excellent visual and actorly qualities. But then I also agree with MaxRenn about the class message.
The scene of the Nice Couple looking at the Horrible Families when they stop for food :roll my eyes:
As I said on the way out "Working class East Midlanders are scum ! I am never going to the Midlands again !"
Hmm a bit harsh there and with that comment,does that mean eastmidlanders are different to any other working class folks,no!
but still you dont have to go there,you can just deal with the innercity folks.
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Yeah it was pretty good I thought, it was a bit of a depressing start to the weekend considering last year started with Black Sheep, but I still enjoyed it. The bit where the kid puts the stanley knife in the guys mouth was the first moment of the fest to make me go urgh, nasty stuff. Nice to see it didn't go for a happy ending either and stayed brutal all the way through. Not one of the best of the weekend, but liked it all the same.
7/10
7/10
Eden Lake made me feel really uneasy and a bit sick. Especially the super-nasty ending which essentially subverted the climax of Last House On The Left. Best movie on Thursday by a mile for me.
I'd like to see the yob with the knob from Eden Lake & the meat humping dad from Mum & Dad go head to head in a Freddy Vs Jason icons of horror, swearing for England, style grudge match.
I'd like to see the yob with the knob from Eden Lake & the meat humping dad from Mum & Dad go head to head in a Freddy Vs Jason icons of horror, swearing for England, style grudge match.
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It's true that it's not much we haven't seen before - a lot of running around in the woods from armed and merciless maniacs before turning the tables on them - but efficiently done and crunchily nasty in places. I didn't like the ending: I suppose it's the only way it can logically end but it's a kick to the audience who've invested emotionally in the fate of the characters and who want to see chavvy peasant scum get their due. (See Adam Mason's intolerable Broken from a few years ago for the same spit in the viewer's eye.) But it IS well made, there's no question about that.
I think it just got lucky in the sense that it's coincided with a rash of headlines about Britain's Youth Out Of Control. I'm not convinced that cinema is the best place for social issues because of the huge lag time between writing the first draft and getting the finished product to an audience - in this case I think he said it was three years. For all they could have known, the Government might have managed to eradicate youth crime while they were making it....
I think it just got lucky in the sense that it's coincided with a rash of headlines about Britain's Youth Out Of Control. I'm not convinced that cinema is the best place for social issues because of the huge lag time between writing the first draft and getting the finished product to an audience - in this case I think he said it was three years. For all they could have known, the Government might have managed to eradicate youth crime while they were making it....
Liked this one, only thing that put me off was the male leads actions in the first place - maybe a bit more tenacious in his pursuit of moral justice than you'd normally expect..which we all knew would antagonize and lead to trouble. The kids were despicable, and the realism of the whole situation was what made it particularly scary, in my opinion..
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Eden Lake
One of the highlights of the festival, genuinely scary and with a little more substance than you'd expect from this subgenre...
but I am middle-class...
but I am middle-class...