Sentence:  What began as a zeitgeisty outlaw romp in the Uncool Britannia of the 1990s is now reborn as a scabrous and <WSD>brutal</WSD> black comedy about middle-aged male disappointment and fear of death. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  (savagely violent)Savagely violent, vicious, ruthless, or cruel