**_Starts slow, but really picks up, with the last 20 minutes a masterclass in how to build tension with simple parallel editing; be warned though, it's not pleasant viewing_** > _A man who drinks too much on occasion is still the same man as he was sober. An alcoholic, a real alcoholic, is not the same man at all. You can't predict anything about him for sure except that he will be someone you never met before._ - Raymond Chandler; _The Long Goodbye_ (1953) > _Violators cannot live with the truth: survivors cannot live without it._ - Chrystine Oksana; _Safe Passage to Healing: A G__uide for Survivors of Ritual Abuse_ (1994) I've been a fan of Shane Meadows, co-writer and director of _The Virtues_, for a long time. Whilst most people would probably cite _This is England_ (2006) and its three spin-off TV miniseries, _This is England '86_ (2010), _This is England '88_ (2011), and _This is England '90_ (2015) as their introduction, I've been a fan since his second film, _Twenty Four Seven_ (1997). But it was his third film, _A Room For Romeo Brass_ (1999) that really caught my eye. A fascinating spin on the "have-a-go hero" genre, the film featured an extraordinary performance by Paddy Considine, who also starred in Meadows's best film thus far, _Dead Man's Shoes_ (2004). Fast forward to the _This is England_ franchise, and undeniably the most fascinating and unexpected chara…

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