Movie                      :Another Year

Cast   :Jim Broadbent as Tom, Lesley Manville as Mary, Ruth Sheen as Gerri

Director                 :  Mike Leigh

Mike Leigh’s films are not for everyone, let’s say from the outset. They are slow, no plot, repetitive, without argument, confused, not plot. If you are interested in drama, its main objective is that the theater is not in the field of traditional fiction increased, but in the meanderings of the banality of everyday life. Given that this is exactly the kind of thing many of us go to the movies specifically to get out, no wonder it does not work for everyone.

Which is a shame, because if you give him time to concentrate on the characters and what they are doing, you can be rewarded with the nature of research to find out the real truth about human nature.

Unpleasant truths is the name of the game in “Another year,” truths about growing old, losing the links we have taken for granted in our lives and accept the reality that they can never return.

Explaining the plot from the movie by Mike Leigh is a lot ‘of sports futility, but I give it a shot: Tom (Jim Broadbent) and Gerri (Ruth Sheen), have been married for some time and has evolved into a clique of friends only get a tooth, has been around for a while ‘.

Not Mary (Lesley Manville), employee of 60 years that has not been in a relationship again, and it is difficult to accept that he might not ever again, there is no Ken (Peter Wight), an aging salesman who has become too old to interact with his younger colleagues on their terms, but do not know how to connect with anyone, the son of Joe (Olive Maltese), which has moved away, but not actually started his adult life, yet, care of his parents’, and Ronnie (David Bradley), the brother of Gerri’s, which deals with his wife (Imelda Staunton), a slow succumbing to cancer.

Tom and Gerri bulwark against these assorted family and friends gather here and there, revealing the casual talk about their fears and problems in the rambling talk about the real close that it is useless and pointed. During the year, they will examine their lives and what they want, some change, some do not.

As expected, this is a movie about their characters. Although an ensemble piece, some more than others, and most of “one year” the burden falls on the shoulders of Mary, played with desperation Manville demanding one of the best performances year.

Mary is, frankly, a mess. We spent the evening and starting to address the problems of approaching old age, which in itself would be a bad thing. He and the fate of the alliance combines the problems facing the future without the relationships that will (a boyfriend or husband) and taken for granted by them, does not.

Approaching desperate to reach old age only makes it harder for her inability to want to get rid of his youth, he wanted to live so completely that begin to define her outside of reality. He spends too much time watching the man at the bar, to build a perception of him the beau ideal – what he feels and what he says when he walks up to him, because he apparently was to make his eyes – and when a woman expects a man comes, it falls apart.

This has become his modus operandi to the point where all your friends and acquaintances have also started a little ‘fear of his visit.

Although this can be a depressing vision in a depressing life, hands and Leigh Manville becomes a moment of truth for the viewer, a charge that way, we do not understand things until they are gone. It is this truth that crosses all SUBSTOR in “another year,” almost literally in the case of Ronnie and his son away, which cracks when arriving late at the funeral of his mother.

You’d be forgiven for forgetting the rest, as almost everything in the film are set aside by the impressive performance Manville, even if it reached the point where the film seems to revolve around his place of Tom and Gerri, as is intended to be a counterweight to the whole world of isolation in their loving acceptance of life as it is, but the characters undergo the same fate as the others.

Marie’s despair is palpable, even director Leigh can not stay away from him like a collapsing star, it pulls everything else along the way, no matter what business they were doing. There is considerable imbalance in the finished product, but the greatness that follows is almost worth it.

Well said, sweet and sour, “Another Year” is fairly close to our life to do so uncomfortable to watch and not only escape people are turning to fiction, what makes it so unique and necessary.

Tom and Gerri even keep the room is upstairs so you need a place to sleep off the drunk after his inevitable disappointment.