#i throw around the word masterpiece a little too liberally i suspect‚ and have used it several times to describe works by Clarke; but it's
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ScreenPlay: Road (BBC, 1987)
"Everyone's worried sick for you, you know. You can't just do this!"
"Why not?"
"Oh, come on. We all feel like this some time. But life must go on."
"Why?"
#screenplay#road#alan clarke#jim cartwright#single play#1987#neil dudgeon#jane horrocks#andrew wilde#william armstrong#willy ross#mossie smith#barbara keogh#moya brady#alan david#david thewlis#lesley sharp#susan brown#tim dantay#i throw around the word masterpiece a little too liberally i suspect‚ and have used it several times to describe works by Clarke; but it's#inescapable here. a seminal moment in british television‚ and one of the single greatest play adaptations ever screened‚ simultaneously#fiercely loyal to its stage origins without being tied down or encumbered by them. Cartwright speaks glowingly of Clarke as a collaborator#and it's not hard to see why: his restlessly prowling steadicam moving from derelict house to derelict house allows Road to fulfil its#destiny as wandering theatre‚ something the stage could never quite achieve. a fierce polemic on thatcherite britain and the aching poverty#and waste of a ruined generation. not that this is pure naturalism: a few minutes in Andrew Wilde‚ having tormented his sister‚ turns to#the camera and screams and suddenly you know you're not watching just any old kitchen sink drama‚ this is something different‚ this is some#kind of primal howl. two sinister young men dress in sharp suits ready for a night out; two young girls argue with their respective family#members; an older man reminisces hopelessly about times past; a young man is starving himself to death in a condemned house. and in the#dead centre‚ Lesley Sharp delivers one of the most devastating‚ affecting monologues ever written‚ as she stalks the desolate streets and#tries to keep herself from going mad with the grief and the horror and the pointlessness of it all. tv was a medium created for such scenes
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