Come to think of it, the way we label the world is really amazing.
For example, as a whiskey lover, Scotland in your eyes must be closely connected with whiskey. You imagine the magnificence of the highlands and the softness of Speyside's paintings, and the islands have their own lings. The magical whiskey is squeezed out of the soil and air like milk, and finally reaches your taste buds, stomach and stomach. With the liver, you can experience the miniature reality of the fantasy world of Middle-earth with your whole body and mind.
If you are a movie lover, you will first think of the world's dirtiest toilet in Edinburgh when you go to the places of interest in Scotland, and then you will think of the kind of rogue drunks and dead fellows that you can't find all over the world, these people Only a few are sober, and even in that state, their brains are full of lower body matters, not to mention how dangerous they are to themselves and others when most of them are "big". However, in the short time when sober and another kind of sobriety are handed over, they may also have the idea of escaping from this kind of life, and then a dry concrete wall sticks to their faces, allowing them to stay where they are.
That concrete wall is the real life in Scotland that is dirty but doesn't let you leave.
Which is the real Scotland?
In "An Angel", the protagonist is also a young man from the poor class in Scotland. He has no fixed residence, no fixed job, no skills and savings, and some are just a family of enemies who have been enemies for generations and a girlfriend who is about to give birth.
Some people say that this is a "train-guessing" version of "Life with Wine" means "Mind Catcher", but this movie alone cannot be so recognized by the critics. Ken Lodge has shown his humanistic care and criticism of the middle class through such a story full of wine, but I am even more curious about what kind of whiskey exists in this movie.
Many people think this is a promotional video of Scotch whiskey, but what does the movie actually say?
The movie is called "Sharing of Angels", and it sounds like a stalk of whiskey enthusiasts talking about the fixed evaporation during the aging process of oak barrels every year. In fact, it is completely ironic. Because even though the theft of a few people is illegal from a legal point of view, the director himself has said that he never thinks that they are doing it morally.
Ken Lodge’s warmth will not rant and rant that Scotch whisky can’t support the Scots who were born in Sri Lanka, but every bit in the movie actually tells you: Scotland has become a huge ethnic village. Whiskey is a cultural souvenir loved by middle-class consumers from the United States and Japan. They actually have nothing to do with the daily life of the poor in Scotland. If the citizens of small countries who are struggling to survive in it want to climb, in addition to the wealthy Americans and There is no other way outside of Japanese performing whiskey culture, and to be Robbie you must have at least two things, one is the talent for tasting whiskey, and the other is the courage to steal.
In order to maintain this attitude, in addition to keeping several thefts against whiskey factories undetected and using drinks to bottle expensive whiskey, one of the drunks with the lowest IQ smashed two of the four bottles of Malt Mill. whisky.
It is estimated that the friend who wanted to cut Robbie just now turned his attention to this one again.
The protagonist of this movie, Paul Brannigan, was a juvenile delinquent himself and wandered around, and he had become a father when he was filming the movie, so to some extent he is the "Robby" he played, only in the real world. What he showed was his talent in acting. And Ken Roach himself is not actually a Scot. This is probably why he was able to keep a glimmer of light in Robbie’s ending: if the bastard we raised by ourselves wants to get back to the right one day, he can still do it. With his wife and children, he drove his cute station wagon to work in the distillery where the Americans and Japanese were rushing to auction expensive whiskeys.
Although the whiskey culture and the Scottish poor class were not compatible at all, the former eventually saved the latter. Of course, until the end, the alcoholics and thieves didn't have any interest in Malt Mill's wine itself. They gave the extra bottle to the real angel and changed their fate to the instructor Harry.
Eventually, the spirit of rebellion in urban culture will fade. What's more sad is that they won't really disappear. They will become the wrapping paper of a city's business card, engulfed by profits, and become tourist souvenirs for consumption, filled with strange candies. Today, whether it is Berlin or Edinburgh, angry young people even use a term that is already "gentrification"-"gentrification" (Gentrification)-to replace the curse of mouthful genitalia to describe this disgusting change. .
I don't know that that kind of ending is even more unacceptable than being in an environment that has to be rebellious.
Director Danny Boyle, who is also from England, filmed "Guessing the Train" in 1996 and brought various tourism consumption resources to that city. In 2017, he filmed "Guessing the Train 2". Let the lead actor Ivan McGregor experience the feeling of being forced to consume tourist symbols created by him.
In the past 20 years, you have enough time to imagine what it would be like to make a sequel to "Guess the Train". What I don’t think is that as time goes by, the imprint of the times it can show will be stronger, but Regardless of the period in which the sequel is filmed, the answer is obvious. They are in a gradually sinking vortex orbit. The position of the orbit depends on when the film is shot, but in the final analysis, the direction is the destruction.
Even if Mark goes to the Netherlands for 20 years of drug rehabilitation, he should be divorced or divorced, and if he is unemployed, he has to be unemployed. He has to go back to Scotland, go back to his old life, find out how he wants to sell his girlfriend to his old friends, and make a fortune before he is too old to move.
Through a newly compiled song that sounds very Irish and cheated a bunch of bank cards from the naive Protestant, this is exactly the old saying, no matter how you pretend to be a foreign guest, you and your homeland cannot be separated for a moment.
Because there seems to be no whiskey in the "training" universe, there is no thing Ken Lodge thinks can save the people of Scotland.
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