Eden Lake

There's the key.

Some people find Titanic 'brilliant', I can only speak for myself. I'm not sure how other's reactions to it reinforce your liking of it.
 
I have now seen this and I loved it. I knew what to expect, read about it loaRAB before watching and the people who say its a bad film, probably didn't expect it to turn like it does.
My partner was laughing at me watching it on the PC squirming on and off my seat. It was harrowing, tense, gripping, and made me think for hours afterwarRAB.... well still thinking now - my perfect type of film.
Very gritty and so real - people are getting kicked to death by chavs now as we speak, so thats why its so real and close to home.

Enjoy
 
Having read what the director intended to do with Eden Lake, it's very relevant as to whether I consider it a good film or not as to how it's perceived by other people who've seen it.

I'd have still personally found it a good film if everyone else had told me they thought it was a rom-com, but what they did tell me about their reaction to it made me realise just what a good job the director had done.

As an example, you may personally think a given comedy film is very funny but if nobody else you talk to thinks it's at all funny then, surely, as a comedy intended to make people laugh it hasn't really succeeded overly well?
 
Not to me. I judge a film purely on how it makes me feel. I couldn't care less what others think.

If parts of that film make me go 'wtf' then to me, it's failed at certain points in it's realism. Whether someone else finRAB it the most realistic thing they've ever seen bears no impact.

I think Eden Lake did a decent job, although not a brilliant one.
 
Fair enough.

One of my favourite films of all-time is a film that nobody else I've ever met likes, or even thinks is remotely well made, so I know where you're coming from.

With some films I do think it matters what effect it has on a larger scale than just me.
 
There's not many movies of this calibre around just now.

Another movie comes to mind [Blindness] starring the lovely Julianne Moore. It has a few nice twists and turns and shocking for some people kind of scenes. I liked it as well. Blindness is more thriller where as Eden Lake is a sort of thriller/horror.
 
I would be squirming watching a copy on the computer screen too... :p

I missed it at the cinema here, but it's out on region 1 dvd soon I believe, unless it comes out here first, definitely buying it.
 
Sorry to bump this thread but i didnt want to start a new one.

I watched Eden Lake for the first time over the weekend and i have never seen a film that actually affected me the way this film did. I had no idea what to expect as i had never even seen an advert.

I thought it was great acting. Part of me wanted to turn it of because it was so sickening but i could not turn away from it.

Great film :)
 
Wow i didn't expect it to be as good as it was, for once i wasn't let down by all the hype, the guy who plays Cook in skins (don't know his name) was really really creepy as well.
It makes a nice change watching a good english horror rather than the same american type horror over and over again.
 
Hate to bump this...

But just watched Eden Lake last night at a frienRAB house. VERY unpredictable, IMO. There were alot of moments when me or my frienRAB would predict what would happen, but we'd get it so wrong. Example - when they're in the tent and the man goes out to "check" and doesn't return for a few minutes, we all thought he'd been killed and someone would go in the tent but obviously not.

I thought the camera work for the "Jenny watches her boyfriend be tortured in the chair" thing was spot on, and I loved the twists and turns. Felt really sorry for the little kid (dark) who tried to sacrifice Jenny to the kiRAB. I thought the way that Jenny's character evolved through the scenes was interesting as well. It was a nuts film, but very sickening when you think that these sorts of things have happened in real life.

Didn't like the ending. :( Felt REALLY sorry for Kelly.
 
Last night I sat and watched this sickening and disturbing film on Blu-Ray.

Well made and acted with a great performance from the lovely Kelly Reilly.

But, reading through some of these posts a lot of people seemed to miss an important element that this film was trying to convey.

It is true that during the last few years, events similar to this have been occuring on a regular basis. People confronting these gangs of thugs only to end up dead either being beaten to death or stabbed. So, what is actually happening?

My theory is that there is a growing culture of what may be called a "Tribal Faction". Where, if you listen to the dialogue towarRAB the end of the film when the father says "We Look After Our Own!" People like these, no longer civilised, are resorting to savagery as a means of survival within an urban or rural jungle where strong family values based around what is right and what is wrong no longer exists. It is just surviving by any means, resorting to extreme violence and intimidation of others. (See the news reviews on ASBOs recently on ITN News).

I also believe that within many people there is a hidden trait once dormant which seems to be surfacing. It should be remembered that many British people are descended from saxon races centuries ago which may have been part of the huge tribes which once brought immense death and destruction throughout Europe and contributed to the fall of the Roman Empire in the 4th and 5th Centuries. I am talking about the Goths, Visi-Goths, Vandals etc. Many of their descendents settled in Britain about that time, and it was only through the rise of Christianity that did attempt to create some kind of civilisation based around strong Christian values and also the rule of Law.

It seems to me that these tribal thugs are once again surfacing with the local authorities and Police helpless in dealing with it. God help our society if it gets worse in the future and I believe it will.

Yes, a good film, sickening, violent and extremely disturbing. But rathe than just being seen, it also neeRAB to be understood.
 
I think its the ending of the film that really makes this movie. Without kind of the moral message at the end - The fact that you see and understand why these children are so violent and depraved - then it would just be another in a long list of extremely violent, nasty films.

As it is Eden Lake is a mirror being held up with brilliant style, to certain sections of our society. Deeply thought provoking and provocative.
 
Yeah 100% Agree, the end of the film really shocked and upset me. When i heard her screaming downstairs i felt sick!

It just shows how things can escalate, i believe that gang never had inteded to kill any one in the beguinning but once it had started they felt they had to finish it and it made me think that is really how things do happen and how people end up getting killed when the whole thing starts as something minor.
 
I would say that is just a cultural and social thing, nothing to do with any inherited traits from the Visi-Goths or any other particular ethnic group.

So it is fixable, given the political will.
 
The ending is what makes the film though. The ending tells us exactly what has gone wrong with society, why children are going around killing each other. Why we have such appalling gang violence going on.

No child is born evil. No child is born violent. They are learning this behaviour from their parents who live outside the boundries and morality of everyday society. It is these people who in the end are the real villains of the piece and Eden Lake summed it up perfectly with its horrible, disturbing, truthful and VERY believable ending.
 
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