Screening as part of our CRUEL BRITANNIA season
After the banning of their original 1977 BBC TV version, director Alan Clarke (The Firm) and writer Roy Minton (Funny Farm) set out to remake their drama for the big screen to ensure that their vision got the audience it deserved. The resulting film was an even more vitriolic portrait of a corrupt and violent institution which stunned cinema audiences and caused outrage.
Uncompromising in its depiction of everyday violence, retribution, suicide and sexual assault, SCUM remains a cornerstone of the British realist cinema movement, and a savage and still shocking indictment of institutionalised violence and abuse.
Synopsis:
After assaulting a warder, young offender Carlin (Ray Winstone) is transferred to a tough British borstal where the staff decide to break him - with savage and relentless violence. At the same time, the existing `Daddy` on Carlin's prison wing, Banks Blundell, the thug who controls all the other inmates, sees the newcomer as a threat and singles him out for more vicious beatings to smash him down. Now Carlin knows that there is only one way to survive. He must fight back, destroy Banks and become the new Daddy on the wing.
This screening is 18+, and will feature subtitles to aid accessibility.
The event will begin at the advertised time above.
