I know a lot of people love Ken Loach's work and I like some of his stuff.
I finally caught up with the dvd of this and was not much impressed.
Loach is known as a message director,but in this the message is unclear.
Working class single parent sets up own business (good) but it is an employment agency for migrant workers (bad). You would expect the script in a Loach film to have a clear message but the message in this is unclear to me anyway. Is the message that the migrant workers are being exploited? ok but if they are working illegally what about legal workers exploitation?
Some of the scenes in this look improvised and they don't work. The lines are sometimes poor or the performances faulty but they are still in the film so god knows what the rejected versions were like.
Working class single parent sets up own business (good) but it is an employment agency for migrant workers (bad). You would expect the script in a Loach film to have a clear message but the message in this is unclear to me anyway. Is the message that the migrant workers are being exploited? ok but if they are working illegally what about legal workers exploitation?
Some of the scenes in this look improvised and they don't work. The lines are sometimes poor or the performances faulty but they are still in the film so god knows what the rejected versions were like.