This would be the typical Scotish film, illustrating the keen understanding of the paradoxical coexistence of filth and beauty, that sticks with your heart for a long time.
The dirctor Lynne Ramsay's debut brings me unimaginable shock on the lyrical images and dacaying visual. The 13 year old boy James completes my dream of having a cruel childhood wonder: catching a bus without knowing where it's heading, feeling helpless to see the girl I love falling, jumping in the wild corn field in a sunday afternoon, regreting upon the guilt of some death-involved crime....
The ratcatcher, with a panic stricken childhood in the Glasgow garbage strike of 1973, has everything sifting away except for the painful touch on those memories.