I really wanted to like it but was a bit disappointed. Might watch again. I think seeing it at cinema would've been good. Definitely unique style and the glitchy editing was good. And I liked the subplot with the romance. Maybe was expecting too much tho.
Good that a film like this can still get made and become relatively well known.
I sort of get what you mean about brexit, if you mean the main guy is a leave voter and the gentrifying family is remain? Or do you mean something else?
Yeah without doubt it’s a lull ride and mates have articulated exactly the same note of disappointment, it took a second watch for its tension to really break through the monotony.
Brexit as in disenfranchisement, immigration as a white on white phenomenon in this case, the drip drip of accumulating poverty, loss of industry, infrastructure and identity too I suppose. Loss of inheritance, ie the changing livelihoods of brothers. The Cornish angle was less overt than, say, red wall land or insert atypically Brexity locales, but the class structures and monopolies of choice are fully realised. I fell in love with the sound design. Weird thing to say about a film. It throws you, disturbingly so at times, mixed with a vivid black and white sheen. The scapes or doors and windows opening, the squeaky squelch sound of fenders (had to google that term) on the boats in harbour.
Overall, I‘m just grateful films like this are even being made in Britain today. A mate would say stfu you pretentious twat (about me!), but so it goes. It seems like the British film world is stuck between the twee bollocks of so much inane wank from recent memory and Ken Loach (and I love Ken), where there aren’t the body of experimental works of a figure like Jarman too often. Of course there are exceptions but they increasingly seem to prove the rule. Apologies for the waffle, day off, no kids here so daddy is stoned to the gills for once.