The Full Monty

Norberto 2021-12-09 08:01:30

Ten years ago, the big-mouthed crocodile had not branched out from "watching movies." At that time, I wanted to get the best foreign film information, and I had to rely on a newspaper called "Universal Film and Television". The fledgling DVD ten years ago was even more of an embarrassing new-born carrier that grandma did not love his uncle and did not have the support of the film. People are still reveling in an era of playing with VCD. Ten years ago, there was no overwhelming Internet to allow us to swim, and communication was a problem in terms of cash. Yes, re-watching [the full monty], in retrospect, this movie has unknowingly accompanied me for ten years. And often the term "ten years" has a certain inexplicable tribute to those great people or things. Today, ten years after the release of the film, I review it again, as if it was just the right time to capture the various emotions in it. At that time, the two-piece VCD in a rough small box has been replaced with a DVD that has a glamorous packaging in the hand and is reloaded. The comparison of the two carriers accidentally revealed the passing of time. Although these people can’t help but sigh, but when I watched the movie again, I found that all the viewing process was fresh, moved, smiling, and laughed, but it was not because of the objective existence of the plot and even the dialogue after watching the film many times. The familiarity fades or expires. I think this unique endurance is the unique charm of every excellent movie.

Although I have maintained the habit of not directly understanding the plot before watching the movie, according to the usual practice, I still nag the plot here (not too much, students who have not watched the movie can watch it with confidence). And I think just reading this script can make you squeaky enough. In the mid-1990s, in the small town of Sheffield in the UK that was heavily run over by the huge wheel of "economic depression", the living environment gradually deteriorated and deteriorated. The fear of everyone in danger and the blankness of looking at each other suddenly became the main theme of the workers living in the lower class. The workers in the steel plant must have been laid off. A pair of workers in the workshop, who are also the best losers, gaz (Robert Carlyle) and Dave (Mark Addy), are the epitome of two typical poor and unlucky people who belonged to the background of that era. The factory closed down, and there was nowhere to start. Their lives were nothing more than sneaky reselling stolen scrap iron, or wandering the streets and smilingly scoring the breasts of oncoming women. In the days of idleness all day long, it is not because of this that each other feels so depressed, on the contrary, they are very contented. But gaz, who is penniless and has a son, is not without trouble. Because of gaz's divorce from his ex-wife, his son Nathan (William Snape) naturally asked the court to award a stable job to the mother who had reorganized the family. This forced him to face the fact that he lived separately from his son. Unable to pay for the upbringing expenses, gaz has obviously lost his last spiritual support in life, which makes him miserable. Gaz, who is in urgent need of a lawsuit to regain custody of the child, has to start looking for a way to get the corresponding money in a short period of time. By chance, he watched a male striptease show in a club in town. Gaz, who is eager to make money, feels that this is not a bad idea, and the most important thing is that there are considerable rewards. So eagerly pulling Dave, who was reluctant to join, began a series of preparatory activities. Gaz and Dave rescued Lomper (Steve Huison), who was desperate for death at the time during a morning run and exercise, and promised to make this worker who belonged to the same factory eventually die of homicide. The same dilemma in life also caused the three to become brothers in chat. Of course, the trials of the catastrophe brought by life will not be distinguished at this time. The three hapless former bosses Gerald (Tom Wilkinson) is also experiencing the embarrassment of unemployment. The three of them knew that they had the habit of going to ballroom dance classes, so they decided to let this outdated boss with a little dance cell become the "art director" of their dance group. After going through gaz's thankless persuasion and the overwhelming force, Gerald finally couldn't stand it. I had to start facing the reality that made him extremely embarrassing; I had to put aside the arrogance and arrogance that once used to face his subordinates for the time being to create this new "dance career". Then the four began to hold sea elections in the town, recruiting troops all the way. Eventually got the old dance king, now the old Horse (Paul Barber) and Guy (Hugo Speer), who is not proficient in singing, writing and playing, only good at organ shows. As a result, the six-person lineup was finally determined, and began to challenge the ruthless and cruel real life as a dance group. Thus began to trigger a crazy, ridiculous story.

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Extended Reading
  • Gayle 2022-03-27 09:01:06

    Patriarchal carnival-style melancholy, it's hard not to think of Little Sunshine at the end

  • Darius 2022-04-22 07:01:30

    Eating potato platter and watching the last scene of the fat and thin old men dancing striptease is really unique.

The Full Monty quotes

  • [Gaz and Dave are waiting in Gerald's lawn for him to leave for work]

    Dave: He's got gnomes.

    Gaz: Aye, he bloody would have.

  • Lomper: [Lomper comes in to find his mum trying to get up the stairs by herself] What are you doin', mum?

    Lomper's Mum: Where've you been?

    Lomper: Drivin'.

    Lomper's Mum: Drivin' where?

    Lomper: Just drivin'!

    Lomper's Mum: [pause] Thought you'd gone.