BAIT - The Popcorn Junkies FILM BUFF'S Movie Review

Описание: Since just about everything in British life since June of 2016 has been digested by the media through the prism of Brexit, it might be a safe assumption that we will soon see every work of British art dealing with life’s ugly realities described as a lightning rod of ‘Brexit Britain’. It will be a lazy shorthand, but at least we now have a common language to speak of the post-industrial tensions that have been festering in Blighty for decades.

Bait, from independent writer-director Mark Jenkin, will undoubtedly be a candidate for such listicling – it’s a weird, grubbily powerful study of fear and loathing in a Cornish fishing village, which flirts with the language of many genres to arrive at a filmic language of its own. The double-meaning of the title – literal fishing bait and the colloquialism meaning something flagrantly shady – is fitting for the film’s salty, queasy sense of suspicion, outrage and doom.

The comedian Edward Rowe stars as Martin, a gruff, taciturn fisherman wrangling tatty nets and selling mackerel to the local pub as he grumbles around town with a roll-up permanently chuffed in his lips, squirreling away tenners in a biscuit tin to save up to buy a boat. Through suspicious, beady eyes, he watches as the tourist season rolls into town, London sophisticates fill their holiday homes with prosecco and take up all the parking spaces, and gangs of students whine about the noise of local industry or make their own yahooing sounds as they venture out on drinking binges. “There’s one of them over there who’s so posh, I thought he was speaking German,” notes a local teenage barmaid.

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