British film director Mike Leigh, a member of the English neo-realism.
the center of the events three families who live in the suburbs of London, a particular focus on everyday life is given to Phil and Penny and their two children.
This director has the capacity to make the characters human beings, very human, so human as to cause the viewer often embarrassed, as if peering into someone else's life. The environment in which they live, unlike Ken Loach does not have a clear position of the complaint but is intrinsic in certain images and in certain situations: the great popular buildings, roads bleak suburban environment, work without the possibility of empowerment and career, poverty and daily survival, and so on. So what Leigh is not an immediate social commitment, but absolutely deductible. To act as prominently in his films are stories of love and affection, those you live within that context, but which are universal and adaptable to any environment. The dynamics between characters are never explicit, the characters express themselves more through bad language, glances, gestures and behavior. Nothing is explained, but only intuition and finally understood why his very human. The hugs and tears, the screams and slammed doors, are nothing but dumb feelings, expressed through the back door. And in these words is contained the evil to live, inadequate to humble a condition impossible to accept, and difficult to apply and give love actually caused by the context in which we live. But at the end of all his films, Leigh gives us a hope, and this film is no exception.
8 / 10
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