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Actors: William Fadie, Tommy Flanagan, Mandy Matthews
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| Review Summary and Plot Commentary about Ratcatcher |
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RATCATCHER is the first full-length movie of scottish director Lynne Ramsay. The picture was written and directed in 1999.
The setting is Glasgow in 1973 during the strike of the garbagemen. A few weeks in the life of Tommy who lives with his parents and his two sisters in a building near a polluted canal. The family waits for the moment the city council will at last move them to a more healthy spot. Tommy accidentally kills one of his friends who drowns in the canal. He won't share his feelings of guilt and tries to find by himself a way to escape the ordinary life of his family. By taking a bus, he'll discover, in the countryside, a site with dreamlike houses where he'll spend hours wishing his family would move here. He also makes the acquaintance of a young prostitute with whom he can share laughs and tenderness.
--Daniel Staebler, Resident Scholar
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| Analysis of Ratcatcher |
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Plot
Time/era of movie:
- 1960's-1970's
Kids growing up/acting up?
Yes
Kids:
- committing crimes
Job/Profession/Poverty Story?
Yes
Ethnic/Regional/Gender story?
Yes
Main Char. ethnic: (if not US Caucasian)
- British
Woman/class/friends story?
- story of lower class
Story of city/rural life?
- Big City
Culture of surrounding area:
- British
Poverty story?
Yes
Poverty plotlets:
- coping with poverty (general)
Sexing?
- first sexual experience
Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Age:
- a teen
Hair color?
- brunette (Brown)
Hair type
- (man) short/standard straight
Unclothed?
- Chest and Buttocks
Events of movie makes character more...
- caring
Ethnicity/Nationality
- British
How sensitive is this character?
- sensitive to others' feelings
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
Physique
- average physique
Secondary Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Hair color
- brunette (Brown)
Hair style
- (man) short/standard straight
Body type
- (man) muscular
Unclothed?
- chest
How much in movie?
- 60%
Ethnicity/Nationality
- British
Main Adversary
Identity:
- general circumstances
Setting
Europe
Yes
European country:
- England/UK
Prairie?
Yes
Water?
Yes
Water:
- drowning
City?
Yes
City:
- dirty, grimy (like New York)
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- generic/vague references to death/punishment
Movie makes you feel...
- depressed/sad
Sex/nudity in movie?
Yes
What kind of sex:
- seeing breasts
- seeing nude female butt
- seeing nude male butt
Non-American film?
Yes
What language?
- English
Any profanity?
- Occasional swearing
If soundtrack VERY NOTICEABLE...
- Classic/oldies rock
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