Sweet Sixteen
Sweet Sixteen a Ken Loach film. Recommendation for you: 
For quirky me this rated:
Because the film doesn’t ‘travel’ well; despite the two lead characters never removing their baseball caps 
I have an affection for Ken Loach’s story telling style and content having grown up on Z Cars and been moved in my early teams by his outstanding film ‘Kes‘.
Why not rate it higher for you? The strong Scottish accents and colloquial language make much of the dialog inpenetrable for none-Scottish audiences without the aid of (provided) subtitles. My year living in Scotland trained my ear to the language but I still had to focus to follow the dialogue. The work is social realism, a ‘kitchen sink’ drama. Not broadly accessible. A ‘niche’ movie.
It’s the story of a working class boy’s daily life. Poverty in Scotland. Realistic violence, crimes and liberal swearing. I cried. I knew people like this. I left them behind. After leaving, cutting the chord, I heard the stories of their lives. It draws a painful, clearly marked, downward spiralling journey that starts near the bottom. Occassionaly punctuated with touching situational humour. The pleasures of kinship and playfulness in daily life. No sound track. At one point the lead character, Liam, listens as Chrissy Hynde, the Pretenders, sings ‘I’ll stand by you’ and later in a club “I go to sleep”. Chrissy Hind was married to Jim Kerr the Glaswegian lead singer of Simple Minds. Example of the simple powerful dialog:
Chantelle to Liam: “how can you care about them if you don’t care about yourself?”
Later
Policeman: “Do you know what iniative is?”
Liam: “Laughing at bosses jokes?”
Later
Liam to Chantelle: “Open the door, give me a cuddle“
