Filth (2013)

It's a pretty heavy movie, not everyone can be recommended
Here, very deep thoughts are conveyed through unpleasant footage of violence and much more, but if you think about the events after the film, much becomes clearer)

Heavy film

Strange feelings after the movie
McAvoy is playing just fine

It was definitely worth waiting a few years after the release of the film to catch the right mood for watching.

McEvoy krasava!
It's good that the film is clear. I would not say that it is heavy, apparently there is something to compare it with.
Of course, I was wildly reminded of his roles in Glass and Split
He has psychological abnormalities everywhere

Real dirt . James McAvoy plays amazing.

Yes, Makevoy has such a 100% return!

What about McEvoy?🔥👌

The film turned out to be interesting, I wanted to read the book on which it was shot. McAvoy played just great. All the mental anguish is played out superbly. You look at him and believe that he's going to explode with all the emotions.

I've been wanting to watch the 2013 film Filth for a long time, because I've heard of it as something unusual, edgy, starring James McAvoy, and I respect him. The reviews were very polarizing, which further piqued my interest. In the end, I looked, and I must say, my impressions turned out to be rather negative, I would give him about 6 out of 10.

A Lot Of Erotic Scenes Are Not What I Wanted.
The first and perhaps the biggest disadvantage for me is the abundance of erotic scenes. I understand that the film is about a cop steeped in vice, but in my opinion, many of these scenes were redundant and did not add anything to the plot or the character's disclosure. They seemed to be inserted for the sake of shock content, not for the sake of artistic value. It quickly became clear to me that this detective story would be very dirty in the literal sense, but I wanted to see a psychological drama about a man's downfall, not a constant demonstration of his sexual perversions. For me, it was very distracting and even caused rejection.

The Detective Who Is Not A Detective
The second point that disappointed me was the completely unjustified tag "detective". I was going to watch a detective story with thriller elements, where the main character, although vicious, is still investigating. But I didn't see any full-fledged detective story. The murder investigation, which was supposed to be the central line, is constantly fading into the background, drowning in the hopeless chaos of the protagonist's life. All his attempts to investigate the case look chaotic, frivolous, and in fact lead to nothing. If the film was a detective story, it was a very, very peculiar one, where the intrigue of the investigation is practically absent.

A Confusing Scenario
The third disadvantage is, in my opinion, a potentially strong script that is not written quite correctly. The idea of the film is great: a policeman mired in drugs, sex and lies, who is gradually losing his mind, trying to manipulate everyone around him, and his struggle with inner demons. It's a powerful material! But the implementation, as it seemed to me, let me down. Instead of focusing on the psychological drama, showing the slow but irreversible fall of the hero, his inner struggle with drug addiction and his own demons, the film too often descends into a chaotic set of scenes where shock content prevails over the development of the plot and the deep disclosure of the topic.

I would really like to see either a detective story, but without so many erotic scenes, focused on an investigation where the villain character, perhaps through a detective line, begins to transform. Or I wanted to see a film that would be entirely devoted to the cop's struggle with drug addiction and his internal diseases, with his slow, painful descent into madness, without being distracted by a detective line that never worked. But, alas, I didn't get the combination I was expecting. The film tried to sit on two chairs – to be both a detective story and a deep psychological drama about addiction – and, in my opinion, did not succeed in either direction to the fullest extent.

Impression and Outcome
Of course, James McAvoy is just great here. He gives his best, and his acting is probably the only thing that really holds the film together. He plays a man on the edge very convincingly, his transformation scares and disgusts, but at the same time attracts. Without him, the film would most likely have lost most of its power.

Overall, Dirt turned out to be a film for me that had huge potential, but failed to realize it. He's too chaotic, too straightforward in his filth, and too genre-blurred. He leaves behind a rather painful impression, but not in the sense that it makes a truly profound movie about the fall of a man, but rather because of the feeling that he could have been much better. Therefore, my rating is 6 out of 10.

It's a great movie. Nothing heavy was noticed.

An incredibly gorgeous film with a great aftertaste, when after watching it you want to pour a glass of whiskey, smoke, and discuss the details of the film, which, especially at the end, add up to a magnificent mosaic of tragedy, the fall of a man to the very bottom. In terms of plot, it is very similar to the bad lieutenant with Nicolas Cage, the same scoundrel in uniform, but there the film gives the viewer a happy ending, while the dirt suffocates with hopelessness at the end, teasing a little with the ghostly silhouettes of a mother and son, kind of giving hope that we will see a happy ending after all. But the ending turned out to be as harsh and violent as the main character's jump from the chair at the end.

James McAvoy is gorgeous, he can easily play the all-powerful Professor X, but he really reveals himself in "adult" dramatic roles. Yes, watching a complete bastard who fucks friends' wives, steals money, frames colleagues, a transvestite, a drug addict and an alcoholic, but thanks to McAvoy's charisma, this damn bastard is a pleasure to watch.

The strangest movie of my life, but I loved it. It was really something to think about. The main character himself is very original.

I turned it on and turned it off almost immediately. It's really some kind of mud that you don't want to plunge into. Well, maybe it would have gone under a certain mood, but... for a serious drama, a heavy, hard film, everything is too grotesque, some kind of crazy carousel of events and chatter. And for an easier option, a reckless breakaway is too disgusting and unpleasant.

@x_arlan: I'll take a look. It's strange because it causes contradictory emotions. It seems that the main character is still filth and filth, but in his own way I feel sorry for him.