Grey monotonous apartment blocks, unemployment with relative poverty, people with addictions and impaired physical and mental health - those phenomena are common to rich countries as well, but those who can try to avoid it, not notice it, and most "different" ones have no idea about life perhaps some miles away. Neither do I, all this was a kind of cruel documentary to me, apart from the fact that I recognised some great British actors (Ray Winstone, Kathy Burke). True, performances were great and realistic, but everything was nasty, even the weather, and following people with lost or vain hopes and odd forgiveness is frustrating rather than interesting. As for Gary Oldman's debut as a writer and director, it is good, but I would have preferred a plot instead of gloomy narration.
Review of Nil by Mouth
