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Scotland   d/  Peter Mullan

Yet another hard-to-watch film about a sensitive, intelligent young man subjected to the apparently unrestrained savagery which is the world on Scotland's mean streets. Is this the reality of life for adolescent males there? Constant physical threats, beatings...some of the least creative but ubiquitous swearing in all of Christendom?

Why on earth would the Scot arts councils sponsor films like this? Are they daft? Who the hell would go there after seeing a bunch of these? Who knew Scotland was a hive of barbarism? What would David Hume think of this?

I'm tired of these. Make them stop. Wash their mouths with soap.

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