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In a small town in Scotland, a young man must overcome his depression and the voice that haunts him daily. From a cliff top, a man in a hoody leaps to his death.
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23 Feb 2019
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Scottish drama about suicide. The sentiment is in the right place and there are some beautiful external shots of the Scottish coast - but the film is too melodramatic. It does however have an extremely chilling ending.
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The central character of Marilyn Edward’s earnest exploration of mental health is a lonely white male passively ambling towards his mid-life. Besieged by past tragedy, and with an infirm mother, the protagonist faces everyday cruelty which serves to negatively exacerbate his already tenuous grip on reality... Sound familiar? The probability of picking a joker from an average deck of cards is one in 54, but what are the chances of pulling two in a row, MurRAY?! The comparison is a worthwhile one, however, because while this month’s other film about male mental illness is an empty, pointless fan-fiction, Connect contrasts big budget folly with consideration, sensitivity and heart.
Following an enigmatic sequence of someone elegantly throwing themselves off a cliff,…
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Set in Scotland and dealing with the high rate of male suicide in the country, this should have been right up my street. Kevin Guthrie is reliably great, and there are so many stories waiting to be told here, not to mention Scotland looks majestic on screen.
It's actually okay that Connect is straightforward. A young man is dealing with suicidal thoughts, an older man spots him by the cliffs one evening, gives him a talking to. He then meets a young single mum, and so on.
It's a film which is about something in particular. Because of that, clarity and surface-level narrative is fine with me, especially when serving as part of a message around men's mental health. There's…
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Absolute piece of shite flimsy little mental health PSA.
Script needs to be wiped out of existence. -
Really like Kevin Guthrie, I respect where this goes with the ending, and its pretty admirable for a first feature with good flashes of cinematography.
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Good intentioned yet remarkably manipulative, plays like a 4 episode arc of a Scottish soap opera than a film with an aesthetic language designed to inform on its difficult themes. Guthrie is fab.