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ScientistOfSound
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25 Jun 2011, 11:05 am

Has anybody seen this movie?
Its a really amazing movie, it really upsets me in some bits though.



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25 Jun 2011, 11:24 am

Yes - it's a really brilliant movie. I was moved to tears when I saw it for the first time on Channel 4 a couple of years ago.

Did you know that Paddy Considine (the fella who plays the Army psycho) actually has Asperger's Syndrome himself?



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25 Jun 2011, 11:36 am

Tequila wrote:
Yes - it's a really brilliant movie. I was moved to tears when I saw it for the first time on Channel 4 a couple of years ago.

Did you know that Paddy Considine (the fella who plays the Army psycho) actually has Asperger's Syndrome himself?


Woah
I wasn't aware of that!

The ending scene of the film made me deeply upset, because I've been bullied and abused like that before. It was heart breaking.



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25 Jun 2011, 11:49 am

They did indeed do horrible things to him in that film - raping him, drugging him, forcing him to perform oral sex, physically assaulting him, psychologically tormenting him about his Army brother and eventually leaving him for dead while he hung himself...

…I have a huge understanding why the Army chap did what he did. And at the end of the day, these were your regular, local town small-time thugs. When up against someone like that they had no chance.



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25 Jun 2011, 11:50 am

ScientistOfSound wrote:
Woah
I wasn't aware of that!


From the Maily Telegraph here.



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28 Jun 2011, 9:58 am

Dead Man's Shoes is an underrated gem, some of the scenes where the brother of Paddy Considine's avenging angel is humiliated literally gave me the chills.


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30 Jun 2011, 2:02 pm

Tequila wrote:
Yes - it's a really brilliant movie. I was moved to tears when I saw it for the first time on Channel 4 a couple of years ago.

Did you know that Paddy Considine (the fella who plays the Army psycho) actually has Asperger's Syndrome himself?


seriously! he's one of my favourite blokes (I'm really looking forward to his film Tyrannosaur due this year).

oh and Dead Man's Shoes - amazing! great acting by both of them.


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