★★★★ (Five-star full score) Ken Rocky’s latest collaboration with screenwriter Paul Liverty is a warm, funny, and kind film. This is a free and indulgent social realist farce-otherworldly, sometimes even as innocent as a child. In my opinion, Rocky has found a happy comedy mode-I think it is happier than his "Finding Eric"-and a comedy without cynicism and irony. In many ways, this is his most relaxed and successful screen work in this period of time. "A Piece of Angel" can be regarded as Rocky's "Sweet Sixteen" or even his early classic "The Child and the Eagle" companion article. Of course, it also borrows from McKendrick's "The Deserted Island Wine Pond": a comedy that is gentle on the surface, but more critical. Once again, Rocky used non-professional actors and novices: his male protagonist is rookie Paul Brannigan, playing Robbie, a violent young Glasgow criminal accused of assault, because he is about to become a A father, he got his last chance in court, and his lawyer thinks he has reformed. Robbie was sentenced to community service without going to jail. He and a group of illegal fools and nerds repainted the community center: Mo, Rhino, and extremely stupid Albert. Their weird remarks made people laugh suspiciously. The supervisor Harry is a kind soul. He has a connoisseur's passion for whiskey. Out of goodwill, he took them to a distillery. Amazingly, Robbie has an untrained ability to distinguish whiskey, perhaps just like Billy's ability to train Kestrels in "The Kid and the Eagle", even though Robbie doesn't pay much attention to his skills. He is very interested in the whiskey that evaporates into the air: the so-called "angel's portion". Considering that some whiskies sell for hundreds of thousands of pounds, his stubborn criminal wants to know how to get his share. Rocky often staged scenes in a gentle, almost quietest way, of course, compared to contemporary TV series. Some people may occasionally feel that the structure of the story is a bit loose, but for me, Rocky and Leverty are speaking in a fascinating and dramatic voice. A key scene is that Robbie is called to the stage of a "blind tasting" and asked to identify a whiskey. If Ron Howard were to direct, people would be even more dissatisfied with Robbie's working-class appearance, and even more amazed at his rain-like talent. What Rocky brings to us is lower-key and more real. The dramatic climax has a hint of cheerful unreality, it has to be indulged, but as always, the humanism and optimism in the comedy triumphs and eliminates The brutality Robbie tried to transcend in confusion. Harry performed very well as a father, and he tried his best to show his children a way to find a better self. He was puzzled by the unlucky Albert who failed to recognize Edinburgh Castle. "Do you have no shortbread in your house?" he asked. It would be weird to compare the ending of "A Piece of Angel" with the ending of "The Kid and the Eagle." I just want to say that the world view is a bit different, and maybe the times are different. This movie seems to have no way out-but, even though it has no illusions about the long-term youth unemployment problem in 2012, it has found some light, or maybe it is trying to solve this in a more relaxed way. problem. Robbie and his friends are not angels: but the film finds a way to give them something that real life can't or won't give them: a chance.
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