I have just this second come out of the cinema (Everyman Mondays 💘) having seen it and saved reading this for now. I totally agree. Poor old Jodie’s death and the skull bit honestly nearly made me laugh. Also is Jack O’Connell’s Jimmy supposed to represent Jimmy Saville???? Seemed a weird coincidence with that hair and jewellery??!
Highly agree with your assessment. It felt like 3 different writers with 3 different stories to tell.
I was trying so hard to find any political connections but couldn’t. Could you connect the dots on the Brexit bit for me as an American? If the boy’s community were the Brexiteers, then it’s tough to argue that they were unsuccessful, which wouldn’t be the position I would expect from a movie maker.
So weird right? Expected much more cohesiveness from the Boyle/Garland/Murphy triad.
Re Brexiteers, not sure it’s intended with exact parallels in that way. More just a conjuring of the ye olde Britain vibe involving old ways of living and desire for isolationism that led to Brexit in the first place…
I have just this second come out of the cinema (Everyman Mondays 💘) having seen it and saved reading this for now. I totally agree. Poor old Jodie’s death and the skull bit honestly nearly made me laugh. Also is Jack O’Connell’s Jimmy supposed to represent Jimmy Saville???? Seemed a weird coincidence with that hair and jewellery??!
Poor Spike! 😂There was such a nervous cackle at that bit at the screening I was at… Re Jimmy, oh yes indeed https://www.businessinsider.com/jack-oconnell-28-years-later-character-jimmy-crystal-jimmy-savile-2025-6
Highly agree with your assessment. It felt like 3 different writers with 3 different stories to tell.
I was trying so hard to find any political connections but couldn’t. Could you connect the dots on the Brexit bit for me as an American? If the boy’s community were the Brexiteers, then it’s tough to argue that they were unsuccessful, which wouldn’t be the position I would expect from a movie maker.
So weird right? Expected much more cohesiveness from the Boyle/Garland/Murphy triad.
Re Brexiteers, not sure it’s intended with exact parallels in that way. More just a conjuring of the ye olde Britain vibe involving old ways of living and desire for isolationism that led to Brexit in the first place…