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Boring, over-political, tech fuzed mess

When a movie has you begging for it to end not even half way through it's pure crap. We've all seen this movie and this characters millions of times, nothing new in it. Don't waste your time.

It’s fine. It's literally the definition of a fine movie. You’ve seen it before, you know every beat and outcome before the characters even do. Only question is how much escapism you’re looking for.

The best films I have seen recently have been directed by visionary female directors. Clio Barnard's The Selfish Giant is a bleak but beautiful masterpiece that, through its elegiac settings and panoramas and its understated central performances manages to excoriate the ravages of capitalism without speeches and sermons. The comparisons with Kes are fitting - not just in terms of the harsh Yorkshire setting, but in the way both films use small details in seemingly humdrum lives to make profound observations about society's iniquities. You don't want to overload such a composed, assured and (in the best sense) quiet film with hyperbole but, for all it's still-life framing and underplay, some of The Selfish Giant's themes of fate and misfortune are Shakespearean. It's completely fair to call this film a modern classic.

Really hard to start it... Very deep and heartbreaking.It's a realistic British drama showing really detailed the current life of worker class in Bradford - north England, what is still suffering after the 1980's recession and economy collapse. I've never seen any movies putting you up close for such situations just like you can't pay your £20 bill and selling your only furniture. It focuses on the lives of two boys who are both from a large family with awful living conditions. Instead of going to school they prefer to collect scrap metal to help out their family to survive. How ridiculous is it to steal a few kilograms of metal hidden in your jacket from a scrap- dealer isn't it?Absolutely worth to watch, but on a first date. The last ten minutes are really shocking, be prepared for a long never ending catharsis.

Tiny Arbor Fenton (Conner Chapman) has a big bark. His best friend Swifty (Shaun Thomas) is big and quiet. Both boys are from dysfunctional families. At the railyards, they witness Mick steal cable and nick it for themselves. They sell it to the local scrap dealer Kitten (Sean Gilder). The boys get suspended from school after Swifty gets picked on and Arbor starts the fight. They scrounge for scraps and even steals. Kitten has horses that he races in illegal road races. Swifty is good with horses and Kitten wants him to race. Arbor is left out. Arbor keeps pushing to steal live high voltage cable. Events unfold leading to tragic results.The setting is glum. The boys are terrific. It's a dark story that can't be anything other than resulting in tragedy. This is a very good indie. I just didn't like the horse part of the movie. It feels unreal and out of place from the rest of the movie. The race feels fake. This is a movie that survives by its gritty realism. The horse racing aspect takes me out of the movie. The relationship between the boys is deep. It's a good little indie.

The two leads, as unknowns, are superb, as are all the child actors in this.Of the adults it is clearly led by the performance of the three lead female actors (four: I should include the school receptionist). But this film has such an almost documentary feel about it you can forgive any of the acting that may feel a little strained or unnatural (perhaps because of a lacking in the script?).There are some wonderfully emotionally funny scenes equally matched by ones of sadness. People often use words such as grim, depressing or bleak. But this is Britain as it is; which is about looking for the humour and humanity beyond the circumstance of living. If you haven't been in Britain, then you might be forgiven, if you live here then maybe you have been sheltered: This is really how life can be; but it is far more a story about a boy's journey to manhood.As a statement on modern society then it speaks volumes to say that nothing is different now as from when it's 60's counterpart Kes was made, or for that matter in anytime in our history.But for me it won on all levels for it's such strong sense of humanity, on Arbor's journey of discovery, which was lacking, somewhat, in Kes.