My bird loved it even more than me, but she is mental

Rating: 8/10 (21 October 2019)

The depiction of early 1980's urban squalor is really well done and helps the story of neglect and unpleasantness come to the fore. Locations, lighting and colour palette all enhance the storytelling, along with the many close ups of the protagonist to create an intense and dizzying cinema experience.
The story builds to what is not surprising but still a shocking climax and made me think of urban legends of that time; most notably a man who shot himself live on television. That and the broke culture of the 1970s/ 80s with rubbish piling up in the streets, the dead being stored in cattle sheds because gravediggers were on strike, people having to live intermittently by candlelight because electricity was being rationed and the involuntary three day working week, all, if not literally but evocatively find their way into this film as the cranks that make the pressure more plausible.