I’m a big fan of Neo-Realist films, and Nil By Mouth was among the first I ever saw. When I first saw it it was unlike anything I’d ever seen before, specifically in that it seemed credibly real without exposing the intrusive gaze of the filmmaker. It was like a documentary, but more. I’ve been hooked on this style ever since.
This clip of Ray Winstone is shocking: there’s no cartoony violence, nothing visceral, just a raw expression of the sort of anger that real people occasionally exhibit. Its scary precisely because of its plausibility.
Critical Notes
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