At least once in our lives we’ll be stricken with a certain trepidation about how the present matches up with memories of the past. It can be an old flame that’s been rekindled over years; the reunion of a favourite band, the comeback of a sports idol, an attempt of ours to somehow recapture past glories, to see if we still have it. Sometimes lightning can strike again, but more often than not we’re vaguely unsatisfied by version 2.0, and we begin to doubt ourselves. Was the original time around really that good? Are those memories seen through the rose coloured lenses of nostalgia? There’s only one way to find out, though.
Tag: Irvine Welsh
Movie Review: FILTH
About ten minutes into Filth (written and directed by Jon S. Baird, from the novel by Irvine Welsh), I was on the verge of deciding that I hated it. I knew exactly why I was feeling like this: I absolutely loathed the central character, played by James McAvoy (X-Men: Apocalypse), and I felt that the entire production was trying way too hard to capture the vibe of that other Irvine Welsh adaptation. Even though I’d read the book about 14 or 15 years ago (Jesus,really?) and knew the major reveal, I went in not fully comprehending how much I could hate a fictional character. And not only that, Bruce Robertson was being played by the faun from Narnia!