Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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After he shifted to the dry side, Durrett discovered its social benefits...
Teen movies through the decades have alternately embraced, lamented and spoofed this version of social hierarchical hell. The evil jocks and catty girls of Carrie got theirs in the end when good old outcast Carrie set them aflame at the Prom. The "diverse" group of a prom queen, geek, jock, basket case and criminal in The Breakfast Club learned the warm, fuzzy lesson that they can all be friends despite their social differences. And of course there is the ultimate in teen popularity movies, the brilliant Clueless, which mercilessly satirized ultra-rich Valley Girls and the high school scene...
...could say what a kestrel is--even though it is totally the coolest, supposedly able to hover Harrier-like in the air--we would do well to follow the Brit crits' lead: though not the best example, My Name Is Joe is another acceptable slice of Loach's British social realism...
...title). Indulging in a sort of self-forgetting one might expect of someone with a blacked-out past, Joe throws himself into what he calls his family: coaching the local soccer team, a sorry lot of unemployables. Chance encounters and friend Liam lead Joe's path to intersect with social worker Sarah (Louise Goodall), who meets regularly with Liam, his wife and his "wean" (that's "child"; derived from "wee 'un"). Joe helps wallpaper Sarah's house and eventually summons courage to ask her out; relationship follows...
Glasgow--overcast, tenement-filled and shot with a certain indulgence for natural light's gay vicissitudes (i.e., shades of gray and the occasional blinding sunburst)--stars as itself, showing off its social welfare services and those scrappy lower orders who compose both Joe's soccer team and, supplied with worse lines and hence less likable, the local hoodlums. Since Joe practices a strong allegiance to his "family," which includes Liam, and since former addict Liam and addict-at-large Liam's wife play fast and lose with debts to said hoodlums' boss, it's clear that too-willing-to-help...