James McAvoy's handsome and gentle image of a white-faced scholar to control such a character that should have been through the vicissitudes of life seems to be a little immature, but he completely relied on the strength of the performance to reverse his usual image, and his performance can sometimes even attract the audience more than the story itself. Look on.
The most interesting story of "Filth" is its "virtual" side. McAvoy's strong anti-social and anti-moral personality characteristics and his desire for family warmth are very contradictory, and the people around him are also set to Different and representative individuals, the police chief who dreams of becoming famous in Hollywood, every day meticulously dresses up the policewoman who dreams of representing a generation of motivated young people, and the psychologist who looks like a mad scientist. In Bruce's hallucinations, they become pig heads, sheep, elephants and other animals, full of black humor and irony.
What makes the film uncomfortable is precisely the "real" side of the story. The film constantly reminds the audience that all Bruce's madness and sinful behavior seem to be attributed to his brother's accidental death, and everything he did to harm himself and others. Anti-social behavior seems to come from this childhood shadow, including the final suicide. In this way, the character's personality has a clear logic, but it weakens the "surreal" temperament that the whole story wanders between illusion and reality, and the strength is finally weakened a lot
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