mistersloane
heavy heavy monster sound
at least it had a bit of humour to it, like sammy and rosie get laid, my beautiful laundrette etc etc.
Yeah I know what you mean, it's very unrepresentative of the UK, who as a nation I think really laugh alot. Having said that, I laughed alot through the first half of NEDS - me and my Glaswegian mate were sharing alot of the jokes, and I thought alot of Nil By Mouth was very very funny, not the really dark scenes obviously but again the first half. I find it very funny when directors do bleakness and get the observations right, especially within dialogue.
I think the directors who catch it right are the ones who mix the dourness with that really dark, sophisticated, sarcastic ironic humour that's a particularly evolved trait of the UK. I really don't like the bigger Uk directors, Leigh, Loach, Terence Davies, all horrible, but Naked is amazing.