Agreed; a powerful and thought provoking movie with fine acting from the lead actors. I too think it's one of Meat's finest performances .. imo he plays the role of Fred with great subtlety. Whilst I want to disassociate myself from the character's behaviour, his tone, body language and facial expressions convey Fred's awkwardness and discomfort and underlying fear of flying in the face of majority opinion which drives him, as it drives so many who react like this. The character could have so easily have been a simplistic bully, but does not imo come across like this at all. One of my favourite ML films.
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