I love this kind of drama, I really do, but they are always so keen to emphasise the salt-of-the-earth, heart-of-gold dimension of the British working class. Well I was there and, very often, it's so not true. The unshown aggression, the cruelty, the drunken violence, is real, very, very real. Everyone is NOT a good guy at heart if only they had a chance. I know.
I have, as a child, been bundled out of the fire doors, covered in blood from the fist-throwing cousins, uncles, parents. If you want a true, unvarnished picture of this kind of life you can get it from a picture from the other side of the world: Once Were Warriors. The truest portrayal of the brutishness of British underclass I ever saw.
I have, as a child, been bundled out of the fire doors, covered in blood from the fist-throwing cousins, uncles, parents. If you want a true, unvarnished picture of this kind of life you can get it from a picture from the other side of the world: Once Were Warriors. The truest portrayal of the brutishness of British underclass I ever saw.