Jeremy Corbyn has joined the movie social media web site Letterboxd and given his verdict on a few of Ken Loach’s most well-known movies.
The previous Labour chief, who’s now an impartial MP, has already reviewed six movies within the house of a day and awarded every one in every of them 5 stars.
Amongst these are three of Ken Loach’s movies together with I, Daniel Blake, The Wind That Shakes The Barley and The Previous Oak.
“Authorities ministers ought to watch this movie to know the human price of welfare cuts. Nicely accomplished Ken for this shifting masterpiece,” he wrote on I, Daniel Blake.
NME additionally beforehand awarded the movie four-stars and described it as “righteous commentary on the state of the UK, which hits residence with the pressure of a sledgehammer.”
As for The Wind That Shakes The Barley, Corbyn praised Cillian Murphy and stated: “It’s concerning the horrors and contradictions of the Irish Civil Battle in 1922. I keep in mind displaying this in a neighborhood centre in our constituency, and Ken got here to speak to us about how he made the movie. Thanks Ken! Excellent efficiency by Cillian Murphy.”
His verdict on Loach’s final movie The Previous Oak was that: “Made me take into consideration the refugees I’ve met all through my life and the horrible ordeal they undergo. We went to see it collectively within the cinema, and gave us a way of empowerment and hope in a kinder world. Ken provokes individuals to assume positively. That may be an unstoppable pressure.”
Corbyn additionally gave constructive opinions to The Nice Gatsby, 2001: A Area Odyssey and the 2014 movie Delight starring Invoice Nighy and Dominic West.
In the meantime, Loach lately addressed rumours that The Previous Oak can be his final movie.
“Sooner or later at a time,” he responded. “In case you stand up within the morning, and also you’re not within the obituary column; someday at a time.”
In 2022, Loach additionally claimed that the BBC had a “shameless function” within the “destruction of Jeremy Corbyn’s management” of the Labour Occasion.
