Road (Alan Clarke, 1987)

Alan Clarke’s television adaptation of Jim Cartwright’s stage play Road honors its theatrical roots while forging a uniquely cinematic experience. The end result stands as one of the screen’s most harrowing, and most darkly humorous, depictions of urban poverty’s ability to prompt alienation and desperation. These emotions are exhibited by a wide cast of characters, most of whom are either aggressively sexual young women or substance-abusing men. The codependency between these two groups and the others that exist in the cast’s periphery portrays poverty as an ingrained, inescapable social condition.

Видео Road (Alan Clarke, 1987) канала Michael Ginzburg