Hello my lovelies,
Hope you're all enjoying your week wherever you may be. Weather in the UK can't seem to make up its mind as usual making it perfect for film watching writing reviews for you guys. Today's post will be quite a brief one as I didn't have a lot to say about Scum as I found it quite difficult to get into.
Originally made for the BBC, Scum is a 1979 British crime drama film directed by Alan Clarke representing how brutal life was inside a British borstal (an institution for young offenders).
Three young men get arrive at the borstal, and everything is just straight downhill from there getting themselves mixed in with all sorts of nasty characters inside.
Before watching I was warned about this being a brutal film, but I was not expecting to see scenes of suicide. Scum is definitely not a film that you can just watch easily, its not one that's been made to be entertaining but instead almost educating viewers on how things used to be within institutions such as these.
There is so much violence and most of it is carried out just for the fun of it because they could, as well as rape and so much racism. Obviously its easy to be oblivious to these situations in reality as the saying goes 'out of sight, out of mind', but when you're watching it on a screen it really makes you think about how people actually get treated within young offenders institutions and prisons, but then almost as soon as its over its easy to tune out again and not give it a second thought.
Scum was a very different film to anything I would normally watch, and I know I say that a lot but it really was. It didn't feature any soundtrack at all, in fact the only form of music comes from a scene involving the use of a radio. Due to the lack of soundtrack it makes the film feel a lot longer and I think this is another reason for why it felt so difficult to get into.
Although I sometimes like watching films or programmes about life in prison, I didn't enjoy this one because I think it was too brutal for me, and even though that is a true fact of how prison life was in those times, I found it uncomfortable to watch and see how these men were treated by each other and also the wardens.
For once this is a film I wouldn't recommend to others. Its not that I hated it as I did find it slightly interesting, it just wasn't my sort of thing and I wouldn't watch it again. However I did find that there was another version made and released in 1982 called Scrubbers inspired by Scum, about life in a female borstal that I would give a watch to see how the two compare.
If life in prison is interesting to you and films about prison are your sort of thing then give it a go, but otherwise its not one I'll suggest to you.
Until next time, thanks for reading :) x
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