From the opening font and title music, THE CURSE OF THE WORKING CLASS knows exactly what it's doing. You think you're in for some sort of mellow, laid back time, as images of working class people hanging out in a bar first appear, but as the location sound overtakes the score and we see our male lead stumbling about, we know this ain't gonna be a pretty ride.
We follow our two leads through a drunken (or, perhaps, stoned in his case) evening, and Justice has fun intercutting between the two. We hear the man sweetly pontificate about the great mysteries of life -- self esteem, women and money, drugs -- as he gets ready to go out, while our other lead, a trashed woman in a bar, gets more and more belligerent ("Get me a f---ing beer!!" "I am not a drama queen!!").
Will these two meet up? The film isn't as interested in that as in seeming to get drunk itself and join these two. We get a karaoke version of "Broken Wings," a fight with lesbians, and more drunken tirades from the woman, who just sits and continues to smoke and talk. We hope these two will possibly meet, but by film's end we're actually kinda glad they didn't. Check this film out -- it's fun, a little sad, and continually fascinating and watchable.
We follow our two leads through a drunken (or, perhaps, stoned in his case) evening, and Justice has fun intercutting between the two. We hear the man sweetly pontificate about the great mysteries of life -- self esteem, women and money, drugs -- as he gets ready to go out, while our other lead, a trashed woman in a bar, gets more and more belligerent ("Get me a f---ing beer!!" "I am not a drama queen!!").
Will these two meet up? The film isn't as interested in that as in seeming to get drunk itself and join these two. We get a karaoke version of "Broken Wings," a fight with lesbians, and more drunken tirades from the woman, who just sits and continues to smoke and talk. We hope these two will possibly meet, but by film's end we're actually kinda glad they didn't. Check this film out -- it's fun, a little sad, and continually fascinating and watchable.