
And so, largely, it turned out to be, except it was lit by the passion of a couple of the central performances, and by a chilling section of child abduction that was as gripping as it was horrific.

One of the central performances was Katie Jarvis, rightly praised for an astonishing debut, seen above in the bleak badlands where impoverished east London bleeds into the flatlands of Thames-side Essex.

The other outstanding performance was by Michael Fassbender, fast becoming the star of choice in a wide range of fascinating (if not always successful) projects -- here in Inglourious Basterds:

And in 300:

And, perhaps most successfully, in Hunger:

Fassbender is a chameleon, able to parlay himself into roles requiring very different styles and emotions:

In Fish Tank, he exudes a cheap but potent charm, offering a simulacrum of warmth to a girl-woman who has been starved of gentleness, kindness and consistency. Unsurprisingly, she utterly falls for it.

As do we.
2 comments:
he was in hex!
crudarama!
I thought I was the only person on the planet who liked Hex!!!
Although I seem to remember blogging some while back about the utter travesty where the producers made the WRONG TOTTY get his cock out.
Ah, well, for that reason alone it probably deserved to be cancelled...
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