A biting sociological outpouring

Rating: 10/10 (7 August 2000)

This film is, in my opinion, a sociological masterpiece. From a European perspective it took me back to my A'- level sociology studies and a certain Wilmot & Young who argued that the working classes aspire to be middle class. As a working class lad' I enjoyed the urine being taken out of the middle-classes for a change. It showed them for what they are. Self-centred and rather superfluous and silly for believing in their own importance, from the sad father and typical' middle-class mother to the selfish `you don't know you are born' daughter. From the faggot hating' ex soldier who has his own skeletons in the cupboard, to the image conscious beauty' and all she stands for. Perhaps though, the video' character is perhaps the most damning indictment of modern society as his strangeness seems, in the end, to be the norm! A superb movie of its genre.