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This Is Not a Love Song |
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Shot on digital video, This Is Not a Love Song will make you think twice before hiking across the misty highlands of Scotland. This isn't a horror film, but as thrillers go it might just qualify, since it's about horrible people doing horrible things in a place that, under these particular circumstances, is also quite horrible. The trouble begins when an Irish "eejit" named Spike kills a farmer's daughter with a shotgun blast that might have been accidental. His buddy Heaton (Kenny Glenaan) is marginally smarter, but they're both pretty helpless in the boggy highland forests, as local vigilantes pursue their own course of justice. This gritty material marked a change of pace for writer Simon Beaufoy (The Full Monty), and it's been glibly called a hybrid of Trainspotting and Deliverance. Those are apt comparisons, but apart from embracing the no-budget "Dogme" aesthetic, this British feature barely holds interest through its use of atmospheric landscapes, subtitles to decipher impenetrable accents, and energetic lead performances. --Jeff Shannon
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