This is the first feature film directed by Paddy Considine. It is a riveting showcase for Peter Mullen's commanding screen presence. Mullen plays a no-hoper; drinking, fighting and hungry for redemption, and in the course of the film we discover the sources of his unhappiness. Mullen plays Joseph who meets Hannah, a woman slightly higher than him in the British class hierarchy, and in the film she goes down a snake and he goes up a ladder. Yes, this is a British film and it is about class.
Eddie Marsan is among the usual suspects to be found in the cast while the woman who gives some purpose to Joseph's life, Hannah, is played excellently by Olivia Colman. I think those who are fond of dogs should probably avoid this film, because in the course of the film Joseph finds it necessary to kill two of them.
This is a moving and effective film which quietly reveals its depth as it progresses.
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