dMYD DVD
Starring Vicky McClure
(NOTE: THIS IS A TELEVISION SERIES. IT HAS NO BUSINESS BEING REVIEWED HERE)
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Flipping Heck, what a corpse-pounding good time that was. Midlands Scorcese Shane Meadows strikes again, deftly clubbing convention to paste with a blood-drenched bouncy castle of laughs, oddity, devastating emotional realism and reality-defying haircuts, all wrapped up in a soundtrack to make forty-year-olds weep. Reinventing realism by the simple realisation that life is both giggles and fists, the maestro hops around effortlessly from mucking about to tragedy, criss-crossing the steady chipping away of teenage abandon and innocence with a boy in a Dogtanion outfit and a parrot called Ian. TV really hasn’t seen anything like it for a bad long time. TV? Oh, yes, that decrepit thing in the corner that’s been pissing out Come Dine With Me on the carpet for the past few years; it’s just been given a shot of adrenaline and a bucket of MDMA. Meadows used to make epic films on his mobile phone, so a simple switch of screen size to allow for a bigger story isn’t exactly flying to Venus in a kitchen cabinet; when you write characters this likeable, compelling and believable it’s a pleasure to spend three hours with them, medium be hung drawn and quartered, characters which are nothing without the modern day troop of players assembled here; all brilliant, but none more so than Vicky McClure, graduating into the aloof bracket of actors who can make you cry with an eyeball movement. And Stephen Graham, who’s always been there anyway and BUY THE DVD OF THE FILM NOW IT’S ABOUT TWO POUND IN HMV. Television so good that it kicked everything else out of the screen and yet more proof of an underrated, home-grown auteur, a man who’s work won’t be truly appreciated for years to come until a decrepit Jamie Theakston wheels out the zimmer for ‘I HAVE REMEMBERED 2010’ and watches his kidneys pack up when he realises how good it was.
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