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Dom Robinson reviews

Strong Language

Distributed by
Planet Distribution

Cert:
Cat.no: PDVD 1535
Running time: 77 minutes
Year: 1999
Pressing: 2000
Region(s): 2 (UK PAL)
Chapters: 20
Sound: Dolby Digital 2.0 (Dolby Surround)
Languages: English
Subtitles: None
Widescreen: 1.85:1
16:9-enhanced: No
Macrovision: No
Disc Format: DVD 5
Price: £19.99
Extras : Scene index, Trailer, Featurette

Director :

Simon Rumley

Strong Language

Producer :

Simon Rumley and Alex Tate

Screenplay :

Simon Rumley

Music :

David Conway and Laurence Elliot-Potter

Cast:

Nathan: Ricci Harnett
Phillipa: Kelly Marcel
Zoe: Tania Emery
Tatty: Julie Rice
Boy Racer Triton: Thomas Dyton
Corrine: Robyn Lewis
Mark: Stuart Laing
Narrator: Darren Groves

Strong Language is definitely contained within this 77-minute vox pop diatribe as 16 people from different walks of life aged 20 to 31 tell their life stories commenting on various parts of life from Britpop to Beer, One Night Stands to Ecstacy and Clothes to Aids.

The film centres around a downbeat narrator who describes a nightmare in his life, from which all the other conversations spin off.

Some of the characters appear to be filmed with a proper camera, while others are shot using a camcorder.

And that's it.

Yay! It's a Planet title that's WIDESCREEN! It's the theatrical ratio of 1.85:1 but isn't anamorphic and doesn't look too hot, mainly because most of the footage is shot on a camcorder. The average bitrate is a steady 5.53Mb/s.

The sound is mainly dialogue, dialogue and more dialogue, with some dance tunes occasionally thrown in.

Extras :

Chapters :

There's a good number of chapters - 20 over 77 minutes.

Languages & Subtitles :

English language, occasionally strong, but no subtitles.

And there's more... :

A two-minute Trailer and a 12-minute Featurette featuring chat from the cast and crew at the film's premiere. Okay to watch once but never again.

Menu :

The menu is silent with four characters standing still against a backdrop of words and punctuation floating past behind them, plus the options to start the film, select a scene or watch the extras.

I normally go a bundle for most docusoaps on TV, particularly Big Brother. However, this isn't an off-the-cuff, fly-on-the-wall docusoap. It's a prescripted film and because of that it just doesn't grab you at all. If it was a TV show, it would feel more like a Channel 4 Cutting Edge programme on 'yoof culture' - something to watch part of before switching over and not something to spend £20 on.

At the end of the film the narrator says he wants to put the whole nightmare behind him and closes with, "That's all I want to do now... just forget"

I know how he feels...

FILM CONTENT PICTURE QUALITY SOUND QUALITY EXTRAS
OVERALL

Review copyright © Dominic Robinson, 2000.

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