The film "Mud": reviews, reviews, description, actors and roles

Scotsman John S. Baird, formerly the producer of the popular British film "Hooligans" with Elijah Wood in the title role, adapted for the screen in 2013 the novel of Scottish postmodernist Irwin Welsh and shot a self-criminal comedy film with a brilliant cast called "Dirt" . The film reviews received an extremely controversial, its IMDb rating: 7.10. Quickly in a literal and figurative sense, the screen version of "Dirt" (in the original - Filth) has retained the author's main literary message - the narrative of an uncompromising degradation of the personality of the protagonist.

About the "hero" of our time

If the same-named work by Irwin Welsh about the misadventures of the sociopathic detective Edinburgh Bruce Robertson, which was published in 1998, decided to film at once, then the creators would most likely have made an exemplary film of the 90s. It is no coincidence that critics, leaving reviews and reviews for the film "Dirt", pointed to the similarity of the manner of filming and the level of humor with the film production of the late 90's.

Indeed, the protagonist - a cop who abuses alcohol and does not shun drugs, who does not miss a single specimen of the opposite sex, an ardent racist and homophobic - is the standard character of the paintings of that time period. Add to all of the above is the progressive madness of the hero, expressed in dialogues with the ribbon parasite residing in his intestines, and briskly gaining momentum in pursuit of the inspector's paranoia - and now the spectator has a real "hero" of our chaotic reality. So describe the main character in action reviews and reviews on the movie "Mud". Critics of his personality is not so much annoying as intriguing, so the experts relish his characteristics in full detail.

Beyond the Limits of the Allowed

For those who read the literary source, the film "Dirt" (2013) will be a pleasant pastime, as the film project is much softer than the novel, and it follows the author's word of Irwin Welsh quite accurately. The first forty minutes of narration from the 93 minutes of the tape's timing may seem extremely hard to the beholder, along with this Homeric ridiculous. The authors of the picture purposefully and quite consciously go beyond what is permissible. Not for nothing that the film "Dirt" was called frankly: the director, not the spectator of the audience, saturates the unfolding action with sexual scenes almost from the very beginning. Therefore, the film project is deservedly marked by the MPAA-R rating.

Great moralist

Young director John S. Baird's second full-length film (after the debut biopic called "Cass" about the famous British football hooligan) made a successful example of a black comedy. Although individual filmmakers, making reviews and reviews about the film "Dirt", position the tape as an evil psychiatrist. The creators tried not to miss any dirty details, the picture simply splashes out the humor and wild energy that distinguishes the project from other adaptations of the writer's works, like Ecstasy and Acid House. Whatever the film critics say, the Scottish director, with all his punk mood and detailed savoring all sorts of ugly things, is a great moralist, fitting in with the best traditions of classical cinema, the film "Dirt" (2013) is an excellent proof.

Completely independent work

Taking up the screen adaptation, the director, not yet experienced in the experience, according to the experts of the film industry, was taking some risks. After the release of the film "Mud" reviews received a certain degree of skepticism. Some authors, contributors, analyzing the plot, led many comparisons with the work of other, more famous directors, tied to psychological motives. They noted the similarity of the "Dirt" with the shocking and not losing their actuality tapes of Danny Boyle, despite the fact that Boyle's projects are a satire of a social nature, and John S. Baird's existential.

Also in many respects, the picture of Baird in his quaintness is similar to the works of Terry Gilliam, especially the surreal episodes with the participation of a mad psychotherapist performed by the spectacular Jim Broadbent.

In addition to the above, the reviewers saw in the Baird project the strokes of Stanley Kubrick's ingenuity and shades of psychoanalysis of the unsurpassed Hitchcock (split personality). Nevertheless, the film "Dirt" does not look like a set of film stamps. The reviews marked the tape as an independent work.

Plot

The Edinburgh Guardian of the Order, detective, police sergeant Bruce Robertson (actor James McAvoy) is a corrupt, alcoholic, drug addict, careerist and sexual pervert. He now and then makes a lot of big and small dirty tricks aimed at shaming his colleagues and guaranteeing his advancement on the career ladder. Robertson believes that as soon as he receives the promotion and the coveted position of the inspector, his wife will certainly return to him. At the moment when Chief Bob Toal instructs him about the murder in the underpass of a student from Japan, Bruce decides that the increase is already in his pocket. However, at this critical moment, the detective begins a manic-depressive psychosis, accompanied by hallucinations.

Even critics - adherents of extreme Western art house, analyzing the film "Dirt", reviews of the main character left cautious, calling it too radical a character.

Defective detective

The surface layer of the story, which is the basis of the picture, though full of black humor and caustic satire, is magnificent in itself. But the bottom of the story simply does not exist. Because presented to the viewer by a vile bastard, the main character inside is a lonely and wounded soul, an unhappy man, a psychotherapist patient, whose brain is poisoned by narcotic substances and alcohol.

"Dirt" is a film whose reviews were called by the central character as a fallen angel, whom the director unceremoniously dissects, organizing a stunning excursion through the dark labyrinths of the hero's inflamed consciousness. This existential reality expands the scope of the picture and is so mixed with the reality of the physical that the viewer is simply lost, what is really happening, and what is the hallucination of the character.

Executive role

Actor James McEvoy in the film can hardly be recognized. In order to reincarnate in the image of Bruce, the performer had to change the usual role of romance to the mask of an unpleasant type with a whole bouquet of all sorts of diseases.

The Scottish actor is known to a wide audience on the paintings "Jane Austen", "The Last Resurrection", "The Chronicles of Narnia", "The Atonement", "Victor Frankenstein", "The Last King of Scotland" and the role of Professor X in the continuation of the epic "X-Men".

The result of his work in the "Mud" is truly impressive, proving that James is an actor that is varied and diverse. An interesting fact is that in parallel with the shooting in the project of John S. Baird the performer was involved in the production of the thriller "Trans", which was directed by Danny Boyle. Earlier, the director filmed the most popular work Welsh - the novel "On the needle."

Actors' Ensemble

Imogen Puts, Jamie Bell, Jim Broadbent and, of course, James McAvoy - the perfect acting ensemble for a quality, sensual but calm drama. The film "Dirt" actors involved in the production of paintings, do not consider such. There is no tranquility in it. But the cast was brilliant, the best performers were the company of the main role. They are struck by their skill and talent for reincarnation Eddie Marsan in the form of pedant-financier in oversized glasses, the only friend of the protagonist, Shirley Henderson as a tempting wife, a rattling mixture of depravity and innocence (she is the girl of Spada from the "Trainspotting"), and Especially Jim Broadbent in the hypostasis of a psychotherapist, who most need help from a psychologist.

Verdict

In the view of the audience who watched the movie "Dirt", the project of John S. Baird is a delightful hallucinogenic hallucinogenic tragicomedy, which once again confirms that the disease of the psyche can be an extremely fascinating thing if it did not lead to unfortunate consequences. According to experts, "Dirt" has a bizarre structure of the narrative: the real events are dominated by a black comedy, and in hallucinogenic episodes - a real drama, reading morals, disgusting and tears. Therefore, the final picture can be perceived in two ways, and therefore it is so difficult to unambiguously define a stylistic analogue in which the game in different registers would be equally virtuosic.