Dead Mans Shoes
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Tue 16 November 2004 // 20:00
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DEAD MAN'S SHOES
(Meadows / UK / 2004 / 86mins / 35mm / cert18)
(Tues 16th / 8pm / £2ttt)
The latest film from Shane Meadows (Once Upon a Time in the Midlands, A Room for Romeo Brass) pitches horror and the supernatural against comedy and social realism. Two brothers return to the home town they left years before: Richard, an ex-marine is strong and purposeful, while the younger Anthony is slightly retarded and completely in awe of his brother, who in turn is very protective of him. As the plot unfolds we find that Richard has returned to wreak havoc on a gang of local druggies and thugs who have used his younger disabled brother as the butt of many a sick joke.
Meadows acknowledges the legacy of classic revenge films like DEATH WISH and First Blood, but where these tend to focus on death-counts, Dead Man's Shoes explores the moral ambiguities of justice and belonging- stepping back into your past as a ghost of yourself. PADDY CONSIDINE (MY WRONGS 8245-8249 + 117, 24 HOUR PARTY PEOPLE and co-writer on this project) gives a ferociously restrained performance with a dead-eyed figure haunted by the need to avenge himself- think Motorcycle Boy from RUMBLEFISH. The first full-length feature from Warp Films, it's soundtrack features Aphex Twin, Laurent Garnier, and Bristol's own Gravenhust!
(Meadows / UK / 2004 / 86mins / 35mm / cert18)
(Tues 16th / 8pm / £2ttt)
The latest film from Shane Meadows (Once Upon a Time in the Midlands, A Room for Romeo Brass) pitches horror and the supernatural against comedy and social realism. Two brothers return to the home town they left years before: Richard, an ex-marine is strong and purposeful, while the younger Anthony is slightly retarded and completely in awe of his brother, who in turn is very protective of him. As the plot unfolds we find that Richard has returned to wreak havoc on a gang of local druggies and thugs who have used his younger disabled brother as the butt of many a sick joke.
Meadows acknowledges the legacy of classic revenge films like DEATH WISH and First Blood, but where these tend to focus on death-counts, Dead Man's Shoes explores the moral ambiguities of justice and belonging- stepping back into your past as a ghost of yourself. PADDY CONSIDINE (MY WRONGS 8245-8249 + 117, 24 HOUR PARTY PEOPLE and co-writer on this project) gives a ferociously restrained performance with a dead-eyed figure haunted by the need to avenge himself- think Motorcycle Boy from RUMBLEFISH. The first full-length feature from Warp Films, it's soundtrack features Aphex Twin, Laurent Garnier, and Bristol's own Gravenhust!