I,Daniel Blake

Watched this last night and was blown away by the magnificent acting..anyone else as enthusiastic about this film as moi?

8/10 job for me...I actually watched it on an aeroplane...it was one of the only British films they were showing in business class

Not a patch on Ted 2.

Goes without saying Johnny

A very powerful film, 10/10 for me.

10/10 from me also.... And I haven't even seen

I just know it's good

Isn't it depressing though ?

Not depressing but sad...apart from Ted2 its the best film iv'e seen in ages

Extremely sad, my missus openly wept and I had something in my eye as well.

Really enjoyed it. Made me want to adopt a good looking single mum with a couple of half caste kids

*mixed race

ted 3 is subtitled ' I Ted clubber lang '

Sad but True ,many going through this shyte everyday..  8.5/10

supposedly they are shutting job centres now? 75 of them. About time.
security guards? they need them coz they are ignorant, disgraceful rude people. They've traded their compassion for a wage. There are some that are okay. about twenty percent. usually women.
years ago you went in and signed on - no hassle. then Thatcher brought in some mildly irritating BS to **** you about. Send you to a week's orientation about dealing with employers? Then Labour(tony got in? ) instead of helping the working man he increased the pressure. Started sanctioning people for anything? If your phone never got a make believe text you were sanctioned? It became kafka on ice. The only way to escape them was to pay for extravagant student loans. Doctor's lines and going to 26 week courses on the new deal?
All of this is causing more expense. Shut it all down leave consoles for idiots who don't have internet. Give them a card to log in. they can use a phone. send letters. The jobcentres are just awful places of misery. Besides paying sadists? what is the psychology of punishing people with £60 a week in their pocket? why pay even more to do it? there's a real mental load of BS there that is festering. Shut it down now.

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Not a patch on Ted 2.

sublime JM

Feb 13, 2017 -- 7:16PM, the orginal hushwing wrote:

Really enjoyed it. Made me want to adopt a good looking single mum with a couple of half caste kids

I gave it 30 minutes and turned it off. I might have to give it another go, you can't all be wrong!

What's the betting that this film is going to be Facts' favourite film of all time!

The multi-millionaire Ken Loach.  Why should he change a format that has made him rich and feted round the world?

I gather his latest - a documentary about Corbyn - could be the funniest film of the decade. Maybe that elusive Oscar?

I haven't seen the film, but from what I have read about it and knowing the kind of film ken loach makes, it would probably wind me up.  He has never lived among benefit scroungers who are quite capable of work but chose not too.

would think 99% of film makers have never experienced their subject matter, so this is nothing new.

Ken Loach top man , doesn't take a nonsense or lectures from the tories

Is Ken Loach, the millionaire film maker a socialist, then, Anxious?

An ex King Edward V1 Grammar school boy, Oxford graduate, true to his working class roots, no doubt.

Is he a Tony and Peter type of socialist, with a burning desire to make money, sorry, to change society? 

Loach sounds like a big fat hypocritical mug.

Nah Johnny,

he wants to change society, like Tony.  You remember, education, education, aducation.

And the ones who didn't have one believed him.
Meanwhile on planet Earth Tony got on with making money.


"Things will only get better" ... how they all laughed and sang with Tony and Peter back in the day.  Well they're not fooking laughing now.  Properly taken in, they were.

Loach is a Marxist and I just can't do with him.

Fookin hell, you have to be really rich to be a Marxist.

Must be loaded, and probably has a housefull of Syrian refugee "children" to keep.  The fellah's a martyr, I tell you.

Guys like him can never give too much.  It's just pure goodness.

So now nobody who has money can have left wing views is that same  that goes for those who are penniless and broke who fall for the divide and conquer garbage from the tories and their fanboys

Anxious, can you honestly be a wealthy Marxist.

I can understand a wealthy philanthropist with compassionate views being abhorred by some of the inequality in this country, but FFS a Marxist!

We should have NO homeless, for example, but by the same token we shouldn't pay anybody to sit at home and do fook all.  But successive labour and tory governments allow it.  We should provide housing for all and make people do charity work or public good work for their benefits.

What I dislike is the liberal lefties who wring their hands and do fook all.  We're getting a lot of them these days.

BTW, for what it's worth, I admire Denis Skinner greatly, as I admired Margaret Thatcher.  Both had convictions and principles imo.

So in this wonderful world of yours where benefit fraud is about 0.5 per cent but the amount of unclaimed tax is about 20 billion you think it is right to hound and persecute someone who fiddles a few pounds compared the wealthy who pay no tax at all, and the big multinational companies who pay nothing as well

Some people even though they have money are not obsessed with it , its usually the working class tories who worship it above anything else in their miserable lives

Poor anxious, suckered in by the Guardian figure of 0.5% for benefit fraud.
The figure was for identifiable benefit fraud.
The people who get away with fraud, those people claiming stuff they should not have because they were negligent, and those claiming stuff they should not have because the systems are too complicated are not included.
Have you seen the figures for people paying back benefit overpayments? And when HMRC pulled several thousand tax credit claims for an audit one time, they found 9-11% of them contained fraud ( the value of the fraud was about 1/3rd of that because 2/3rds of what was being claimed was genuine on average ) .

just watched the film and its bang on the button - that's whats happening whilst other naughty things are going on

heres my story.......


missus got diagnosed wiv breast cancer 2014 and was treated like **** by BUPA

I got diagnosed wiv bowel cancer Sept 2015 better treatment than the above when I chose NHS

I will leave it open to discuss but theres no secret why this film has won many awards

p.s they don't acknowledge you for the 1st 3 mths......... in the hope you die perhaps and anutha 3 mths afta that - sad but true

It's a tremendous film.
Hope you're keeping well smirnoff

Great film, the tin of beans scene got me.

Yes, that was brilliantly done.