CLASSIC MOVIES ? NAKED by Mike Leigh
by Ken Lund
CLASSIC MOVIES ? NAKED by Mike Leigh
For those who never experienced this truism, Mike Leigh’s movie it’s a must see. A necessity. For those who experience loneliness every day, this movie could be a comfort, an assurance. You are not the only one feeling miserable. There are a lot of great movies dealing with loneliness – The Collector, Fight Club, One Hour Photo, Taxi Driver, just to name a few, but Naked it’s one of its kind. It is one of those movies that hit you hard when you watch them, a dark, bleak and uncompromising fable about alienation and about what it means to be lonely, to live your life like a shadow. Watch this movie and you will understand, maybe, how does it feel to live your life knowing that nobody really gives a damn about you. The absence of the human contact…
Naked is the story of Johnny (David Thewlis, who makes the role of his life here, I think), an