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When unbalance leads to submission
An unemployed Brit vents his rage on unsuspecting strangers as he embarks on a nocturnal London odyssey.
Naked
1993 Directed by Mike Leigh
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David Thewlis Lesley Sharp Katrin Cartlidge Greg Cruttwell Claire Skinner Peter Wight Ewen Bremner Susan Vidler Deborah Maclaren Gina McKee Carolina Giammetta Elizabeth Berrington Darren Tunstall Robert Putt Lynda Rooke Angela Curran Peter Whitman Jo Abercrombie Elaine Britten David Foxxe Mike Avenall Toby Jones Sandra Voe
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Alternative Titles
赤裸, Indefenso, Обнажённые, Обнаженные, 네이키드, Naken, Çıplak
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It’s honestly so funny that English people fuck eachother.
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have wanted to watch this for years and for having finally gotten around to it i think i’ll give myself a pat on the back. which isn’t to say it’s boring or disturbing. it’s bleak, but that’s not what makes it a (purposeful) slog to get through. just very confrontational and uncomfortable. the dude goes around and ruins everyone’s day but those people only had to hear his speech once, think about us! used every bone in my body not to make my post simply “this is joker but with more words.” david thewlis is really good in this too.
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“You think you can recapture your youth by fucking it. You don't wanna fuck me. You'll catch something cruel.”
Mike Leigh’s Naked is a riveting parable brimming with a scornful wit and humanity unseen through initial viewing. The film chronicles the exploits of the sardonic and nihilistic vagabond, Johnny, a man who is first introduced as he brutally rapes a young woman in a back alleyway. Fearing the repercussions of his actions, Johnny flees to the streets of London. There, he tries to justify his existence by ranting to strangers and shaming their beliefs. And for the next two hours, we are forced to accompany the far from empathetic Johnny as he wanders around London, oppressing the lives of everyone…
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How to review your favourite film, or even worse, how to review your favourite film when that film is Mike Leigh's Naked?
Naked starts of rough and only gets bleeker. But that's only a small part of what makes this a masterpiece.
First and foremost Naked is abouth David Thewlis' character Johnny, unenmployed both by choice and by circumstance, who personifies the ugly side most commonly shoved under the carpet in favour of the success stories. Yes, we're talking post-Thatcher Britain, but as far as I can tell there's many similairities to present time, and the world Leigh shows us is not limited to a certain era. But it might be limited to big cities.
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thank you david thewlis for making my brain go "i can fix him" when he portrays maybe the worst human being on earth
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" I've got an infinite number of places to go, the problem is where to stay."
Favorite Mike Leigh movie. There’s nothing like it. Set in post-Thatcher England, this is an endlessly fascinating satiric critique of the society, an existential tragicomedy and an utterly bleak character study about a guy who's on a self-destructive journey. David Thewlis’s portrayal of nihilistic, obnoxious, funny & pitiable Johnny is one of the greatest performances ever.
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96/100
[originally written on my blog]
Nonstop dazzling, both as logorrheic assault ("I sent off for one of those little Linguaphone packages, 'Talk Shite in a Fortnight.' It's all going very well. I haven't quite got the hang of the transitive verbs yet...") and as a stygian tour of London's underclass, with its infinite manifestations of sodden misery. Thewlis placed second in the Skandies poll for best performance of the '90s, and was robbed; there's never been a more incisive portrait of scabrous wit as defense mechanism, which is to say that no other actor has ever achieved such a sustained simultaneous peak of exhilaration | valley of depression. It's like watching an Olympic diver perform a double somersault tuck…
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"Have you ever thought, right, I mean, you don't know, but you might already have had the happiest moment in your whole fucking life, and all you've got to look forward to is sickness and purgatory?"
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David Thewlis turns haggard into a verb with his performance here. He haggards his way through this film. In a good way. It's a surprisingly funny movie about a very nasty human being that meanders through the uglier parts of London and comes around to a bizarre anti-confrontation.