Starred Up Review.
Cast: Jack O’Connell, Ben Mendelsohn, Rupert Friend. Directed By: David Mackenzie. Written By: Jonathan Asser. Starred Up (2014) is a prison drama film about Eric Love who is transferred to an adult prison and is a very violent and aggressive character. They say he has met his match when he arrives and it turns out one of the inmates is his father. It follows his violent attacks and classes he starts with voluntary therapist Oliver Baumer who is determined to help him calm down. Now this film, I wish I could describe in one word but that is impossible, this movie is a revolution in British cinema, real, honest and gritty. The only way I can describe it without listing every word that means bloody brilliant is; it’s the best prison film since McVicar (1980). This movie hides nothing and is honest, what we see happens every day, my favourite kind of film and the films I want to write are just like this; it shows you a dark reality that most people refuse to see, refuse...