In a desperate bid to forget about football and Chelsea beating Bolton tonight, I have been watching films during the day, with varying results.Garage(2007) is set in Ireland and has Pat Shortt playing a man with learning difficulties. He is a bit of a loner, but comes out of his shell with the help of a young lad of 15, but then gets in trouble with the law for showing the lad some porn and giving him beer (not in a perv way, just being friendly).
The end of the film is a bit ambiguous, but my reading of it was that he feels such shame about what he has done, he sets free a horse he has been feeding and then drowns himself. It was really slow paced, but had some great acting by Pat Shortt, and it was the sort of quiet and slow film I like.
Another one was The Class (2008), a French film with subtitles, about a teacher (Francois Begaudeau) and his relationship with his other members of staff, the Parisian inner city pupils, having to deal with their problems and issues of racism. Once again, it was pretty slowly paced, but another film I enjoyed.
Last and definitely least was The Boat That Rocked (2009), a so called comedy from the mighty pen of Richard Curtis. I got through about 50 minutes of it, didn't find any of it funny, and thought it was all too clichéd and one dimensional. The music was great but the storyline, dialogue and acting just annoyed me. The Spice Girls movie (Spice World - 1997) was about the same level of entertainment, and I never managed to sit through all of that (nor have I seen much of Four Weddings and a Funeral). What do they all have in common? Written by Richard Curtis and staring the so called cream of British comedy (God help us). Someone at work said they liked The Boat That Rocked and thought I should as well. They are going to get such a slap when I next see them.
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