The film is set in Glasgow in the early 70's and it deals with the struggles of youth growing up at a time when knife culture was rife and the threat of violence lingers in the air..We follow young teenager John McGill and his low-life friends in and around Glasgow, as we follow his time at school where at the start he is a model student, however his notorious brother who is a member of a gang and who is well known amongst the other NEDS, casts a shadow over Conors life as he is soon sucked into the gang life himself, now this may seem like a cliché but trust me there are a few good surprises that rises this film above all the other British films made over the past 10 years... We won’t be able to verify your ticket today, but it’s great to know for the future.Theater box office or somewhere else Will he succumb to the dark allure of gang life, or will he regain the strength he needs to get his life back on track? | Rating: B | Rating: 8/10 The lead character is briefly taken up and then dropped by a richer, middle-class boy; deeply hurt in ways he could never articulate, he angrily and fatefully turns back to the vocation he'd hoped to avoid: gangs, knives and crime.Newcomer Conor McCarron plays John McGill, a bright young Catholic boy winning prizes at school and with no small opinion of himself.
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I felt that Neds verged on emotional machismo, and the role Mullan creates for himself is one of the less interesting parts of the film. Mullen tries and fails miserably at convincing the audience that the lead character is a product of his environment. The real issue for me is that we're never really given enough insight into why John does anything that he does. It just feels out of place in a film like this. Tweet on Twitter. 2 out of 3 found this helpful. These questions are never satisfactorily answered and we see John move from one thing to the next without really knowing why he's doing what it is.
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I found myself really sympathising with the lead actor (I rarely do this). Share on Facebook. June 29, 2011 As an early review stated, it was an exercise of join the dots. The swearing in Neds is prolific but, if my experience is anything to go by, is quite representative of how Glaswegians speak. Jimmy Boyle, mythologised by his lack of presence due to incarceration, like an Anti-Mandela figure, is the archetypal hardman in a town still nicknamed No Mean City.
I was highly impressed.
I first reported on it at the London film festival last year; just as before, it looks like an intensely personal project infused with passion and semi-resolved hurt. Please click the link below to receive your verification email. It's a film with a nostalgic '70s ambiance and an autobiographical feel, featuring the misadventures of a shy, chubby schoolboy who ends up becoming a fearsome teenage gang member.
Even after graduating primary school with all sorts of honors and awards, young John McGill(Greg Forrest) finds moving on to the next level no easy task, what with Canta(Gary Milligan) threatening him with bodily harm. Was this review helpful? His mother is intensely proud of his achievements: Louise Goodall's performance reminded me a little of the Glasgow-born historian Norman Stone's fond memories of his own formidable mother, driving him uncompromisingly onward.But John needs his brother's help fending off the bullies, chiefly one with whose fate John is destined to be intertwined until the movie's final moments.
As a teen, John becomes more brash and more rebellious. And school is not where you learn, it is where you survive. Peter Mullan captures the innate adolescent fear of empty playgrounds and thrumming schoolyards and his Glasgow is flooded with lively colours, but for all its promise, its third act â brimming with religious imagery â feels like a film in search of an ending.Bauer Media Group consists of: Bauer Consumer Media Ltd, Company number: 01176085, Bauer Radio Ltd, Company Number: 1394141Registered Office: Media House, Peterborough Business Park, Lynch Wood, Peterborough, PE2 6EA H Bauer Publishing,Company Number: LP003328Registered Office: Academic House, 24-28 Oval Road, London, NW1 7DT.All registered in England and Wales. And this brings us to the ending, most specifically the last shot of the film, where you see John guiding Canta, the bully with brain damage, through a field as they're headed to the zoo. Neds is a coming-of-age film, but not quite in the way you might expect. May 3, 2011
More than ever on this second viewing, I felt Neds turns on one single piece of class pettiness of the kind I associate with England more than Scotland, but which is probably universal.
How ever it is still quite good movie. Whilst in other areas of the UK (and indeed the English speaking world) fillers within sentences may take the form of "er," "um," "like" or "you know," it's perfectly normal on the west coast for these to be f*ck or f*cking. A stringent street psychodrama in which brutality is an infection and every male is a carrier. The pace is perfect, Peter Mullan does an excellent job in showing the downfall of the characters and asking questions of society and how tough life can be for a young kid in what is a violent city.
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