Watched: Tyrannosaur
Observations:
- As with pretty much any Paddy Considine picture, massive trigger warning on this film (though not on the stuff I’m going to write about it, so don’t worry).
- The music choices in here were brilliant. A few pieces scattered around, but mostly scored by silence. It makes what’s happening on-screen inescapable - and in a film with a considerable amount of violence, depicted in the harsh way it deserves, it can sometimes border on overwhelming.
- Olivia Colman is hard to watch - even at her darkest, she radiates humanity, and given the places this film goes the fact that it shines through is shattering.
- They really got the grim-up-North feel down. A lot of greys and greens, suburban streets and snarling aggression.
- That said, it wasn’t perfect. Parts are scripted clumsily, the pacing occasionally falls flat, and at times you question where it’s all going. But you end up with a fairly positive view of two very troubled people.
- Peter Mullan does rage perfectly.