I didn't have as much trouble with this film's representation of race as I had expected after reading some academic scholarship which referenced it a few years ago.
I think this film does plenty wrong in that respect, but there is much that I feel is handled decently. Starting off with the negatives, it can be fairly accused of white saviourism - the film is centred solely on its white protagonists coming to the aid of the black locals, who…
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
I used to love Danny Dyer films in my pre-teen years, and this film's trailer gave me a modicum of hope that this would be a self-reflexive take on the films he and Love made in the mid-2000s. The final result, however, tells me that I have grown up in the past 15 years, but those two have definitely not.
The film is a sea of contradictions. While the film does seem to acknowledge that Dyer's Jack and his mates…
Jesus Christ.
It's taken me nearly a month to work up to this review because yeesh, it isn't an easy film to talk about.
As of now, I'm only the twelfth person on Letterboxd to log this. I can understand why it's flown under the radar so much because who really wants to watch this film (Ava pls).
It's basically 100 minutes of different scenarios where a priest goes round blackmailing women so he can rape and murder them. It's…
