SPOILERS AHOY Its a dark, yes very dark film, but Meadows has a knack of using humour to ensure his work is never miserable or too depressing. The scene where Sonny accidentally shoots his mate in the head with a sniper rifle is gloriously farcical. I even had to chuckle during the scen...
He saw it again, the small front room where they had used to gather; the terrible plastic tree that Nan brought down from the attic every year, its increasingly tattered baubles and tinsel still in place from the year before; the drinks trolley stocked with the yellow and green bottles that...