Naked, 1993

Mike Leigh is intelligent and has done some really good things, even this in a way. But I just didn't like it, I finally concluded. Yep, you got my number: for me, it is indeed too dark, sad, pathetic and filled with people living those conditions. In terms of personal reaction, it is one star for me, but two or more stars for the artistic skill that did keep me watching to the bitter end. He is deserving of accolades for clear-eyed and sympathetic looks at working class lives, and if you defend his movies on those grounds, I won't argue with you; the man is obviously talented. Tomorrow's historian will value this for the great piece of social evidence it is, and as a representation of the new social history of our time which properly includes the working class without being overtly moralizing or patronizingly didactic. Although here, these characters are even more marginalized than most of his I've seen. They are down to---or perhaps have been treated by society as---nothing, and thus stumble through life....naked. 3.09

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