Naked

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I saw Mike Leigh's Naked.
The imdb description says "An unemployed Mancunian (Manchester resident) enrages unsuspecting strangers as he embarks on a nocturnal London odyssey."
What we see is the character of David Thewlis after a criminal event visits his ex in London and from there begins to harass anyone he comes in contact with.
Johnny (David Thewlis) essentially presents himself as a modern-day cynical philosopher who exhorts anyone he comes across in Platonic dialogue on issues surrounding meaning in life. At first he appears as an enlightened and at the same time self-pitying guy. He is young but already tired of life and the modern human condition whose distinct perception of reality has set him on a self-destructive path. He believes that life (for humans) in a few years will end and therefore nothing stops him from doing literally anything that comes into his head.
The characters (almost all) display intense anhedonia and a lack of any motivation in life beyond scraping through it for cheap pleasure. Be it the passive telly watching, the pathological drug use, the sex work and even the sadistic abuse with Johnny coming to confront them with their sad attitude. Of course Johnny himself is no different.
This movie immediately became a favorite. One of the slickest explorations of nihilism I've seen, with rainy and gloomy London in the background working perfectly as the context in which we see Johnny's descent into the bowels of despair.
But beyond that, it has unparalleled (British) wit and humor, intense confrontational moments, and very dark, unwelcoming characters. However, through Johnny's journey and deconstruction, I got a strong feeling of humanity that radically breaks the nihilistic black hole in which the narrative flawlessly puts you.



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