Ken Loach can lighten up occasionally, but the superficial breeziness of 'Looking for Eric' (like the much-criticised epilogue to 'The Last Laugh') - perhaps intentionally - simply highlights the awfulness of what the hero's existence would really be like.
I'm often shocked by the impunity with which firearms are waved about in fifties British second features; and here the business with the gun brings a bracing dose of reality to the proceedings. But (SPOILER COMING:) would a bunch of postal workers really have seen the gangsters off so easily at the conclusion without later suffering dreadful reprisals when they were alone?
I'm often shocked by the impunity with which firearms are waved about in fifties British second features; and here the business with the gun brings a bracing dose of reality to the proceedings. But (SPOILER COMING:) would a bunch of postal workers really have seen the gangsters off so easily at the conclusion without later suffering dreadful reprisals when they were alone?