I Do Movies Badly

Mike Leigh's Naked is lead by a phenomenal performance by David Thewlis that takes us inside the world of a self-loathing intellectual who is likely using his brilliance to keep people at an emotional distance as he seeks to embrace a nihilism that'll make sense of a post-Thatcher England. But if that man is an unquestionable misogynist and rapist, why should we want to be taken inside his world?