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MICHAEL CAINE explained carefully that his new movie, Harry Brown, is not violent. 'It's about violence, but it doesn't celebrate violence,' he insisted.
Caine's right, to a point. There are some scenes where I got an adrenaline rush when his character, a pensioner called Harry Brown who has had enough, takes on the yobs who have made his council estate a living hell. Caine's performance is brilliant and shrewdly observed -- and not just because it gives a nod to the iconic screen characters he created in the Sixties and Seventies; men such as Harry Palmer and Jack Carter. Harry Brown is an Englishman who won't put up with being victimised any more. Also, it's about time there was a big-screen movie that explored what it's like for the hard- working but vulnerable people in this country who are preyed on by lazy, stoned yobs of all colours and stripes. The day after I saw the film, there was a story about an 80-year-old man who was beaten up in a street in broad daylight. Director Daniel Barber explores a side of the UK that people don't like to speak about: it's a movie ripped right out of real life. The police won't like it, but I certainly did.See the full content of this document
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