A film I've watched hundreds of times. Finney is Arthur Seaton, a rogue working at the Raleigh bicycle factory in Nottingham. He made his career off the back of this film, and quite right too. The direction is superb, the soundtrack wonderful, the cast (mostly) excellent. This is Nottingham in the sixties as my Dad describes it: hard work to earn weekends at play, but with occasional consequences. One of the best British kitchen sink movies ever made. I absolutely love it.

I work for the factory, the income tax and the insurance already, that's enough for a bit. They rob you right, left and centre. After they've skinned you dry you get called up to the army and get shot to death.

One of the all-time great star-making performances from Albert Finney. Just absolutely explodes off the screen in every frame. Loved it even more the second time.

i really thought after watching sing street i could understand any kind of thicc accent without subtitles but...we be wrong sometimes

This is 88 minutes and also the single longest movie ever made

HE PUT A DEAD RAT UNDER HIS SHIRT

Portrait of a working class anti-hero, an angry young man dissatisfied with his social circumstances, but whose rage is unfocused, taking out his frustration on the people around him and seeking escape into boozing, brawling, and sex.
The narrative is thin, the comeuppance predictable, but the movie is held into place by a great performance from Albert Finney, electrifying and charismatic like a young Marlon Brando.
Whether the ending represents the hero's personal growth and redemption or the complete and utter capitulation to his circumstances is for the viewer to decide.

I work for the factory, the income tax and the insurance already, that's enough for a bit. They rob you right, left and centre. After they've skinned you dry you get called up to the army and get shot to death.

Never knew that Finney could act this way, and was something like British version of Marlon Brando.

British New Wave films are not for me, but I understand their appeal and the issues they tackle. The honest portrayal of the people in this movie was nice and I really felt the monotony of the life that Albert Finney’s character was living. Trapped in a cycle of working to pay the bills to support his family and then being a bum in his free time, who drinks a lot and is very promiscuous. I came to watch Albert Finney and I got exactly what I came for. His performance is pretty good and it’s always a treat to watch young Albert Finney in a movie, man was he a twunk for sure. Honestly who wants to be settled down in domestic life, especially when you haven’t lived life to the fullest yet?

偷情，酗酒，打架，恶作剧，这个诺丁汉郡的机床工人Arthur俨然是生活在另一个黑白空间里的伦敦Alfie。比起后者的自大狂妄不负责任，同样放大“自我”的Arthur还是会口述一些哲思和社会见解。英国“新浪潮”通过通俗情节塑造的人物在当年可能还算有几分新鲜感，然而这种创新也只是另一种刻板形象的建立。