The observation about people's perspectives on crime and imprisonment hit home for me. I work in a pretty conservative (big and small C) industry and with a lot of people who (whether they realise it or not) have led pretty sheltered, privileged lives. I certainly wouldn't claim to be massively worldly, but I find the views that occasionally creep out (broadly, assuming that everyone has the same choices they do and therefore any criminality is entirely down to the individual) quite startling and, honestly, dispiriting.
Anyway! Great to see Face get some overdue attention. I totally agree it got swept up with Lock, Stock and its increasingly vapid ilk (I don't think the involvement of Damon Albarn and Phil Davis helped on that front, which was most unfair) but it's a much more serious piece, maybe with a lineage back to Get Carter and The Long Good Friday?
The observation about people's perspectives on crime and imprisonment hit home for me. I work in a pretty conservative (big and small C) industry and with a lot of people who (whether they realise it or not) have led pretty sheltered, privileged lives. I certainly wouldn't claim to be massively worldly, but I find the views that occasionally creep out (broadly, assuming that everyone has the same choices they do and therefore any criminality is entirely down to the individual) quite startling and, honestly, dispiriting.
Anyway! Great to see Face get some overdue attention. I totally agree it got swept up with Lock, Stock and its increasingly vapid ilk (I don't think the involvement of Damon Albarn and Phil Davis helped on that front, which was most unfair) but it's a much more serious piece, maybe with a lineage back to Get Carter and The Long Good Friday?