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I, Daniel Blake
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Brightonfan1983
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It's a good one isn't it.
Not sure if it's still on iPlayer but there was a documentary about Ken Loach a short while back. Worth seeking out.
The food bank scene is utterly brilliant. I love Ken Loach, but if I'm being honest I did think he did somewhat overdo the rhetoric. I came out of the viewing deeply impressed at the film-making, moved, and irritated that I'd just paid to see a party political broadcast...
Meade's Ball
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I went to see it in when I was in Madrid last week and agree to an extent. It wasn't a feature of great subtlety, but by the holy beard of moses it was really rather moving. The end was unnecessary corn and mildly lessened the impact, but the message was clear and important. An awful system that doesn't, in the film at least, have the tiniest slice of humaneness to it or understanding. Good film.
Cheshire Cat
The most curious thing..
Not sure I want to sit through a couple of hours of human misery - I can do that at work. Although I believe it is a good film
- Apr 5, 2014
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I struggle to offer sympathy, dear friend. You've been around long enough to expect nothing less of our Ken !
cheshunt seagull
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- Jul 5, 2003
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I spend a lot of time at work looking at how to design processes to be as easy as possible for customers to use. This presented a system which sought to do the exact opposite. It was very effective and inevitably it was political but at a time in which the 'other' in our society is increasingly presented as a set of caricatures we need to be confronted with the impacts of the decisions we make.
Raleigh Chopper
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That's because you know the director and you know he is a socialist who promotes his views.
Thousands of films have been made with the storyline based on current affairs (Brassed off as one example) but if you were not aware of who directed it then you would just be saying it is a brilliant film, which it is.
Nothing wrong with a great director making a great film about something that he feels passionately about, in fact that is probably what makes it so good.
CorgiRegisteredFriend
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Was ready to go and watch this only to find it had been replaced by some homeless cat story.
LamieRobertson
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