More than ever on this second viewing, I felt Neds turns on one single piece of class pettiness of the kind I associate with England more than Scotland, but which is probably universal.
The lead character is briefly taken up and then dropped by a richer, middle-class boy; deeply hurt in ways he could never articulate, he angrily and fatefully turns back to the vocation he'd hoped to avoid: gangs, knives and crime. He's determined to avoid the spiral of despair that's claimed his alcoholic father played by Mullan and his violent brother Benny Joe Szula. His mother is intensely proud of his achievements: Louise Goodall's performance reminded me a little of the Glasgow-born historian Norman Stone's fond memories of his own formidable mother, driving him uncompromisingly onward.
But John needs his brother's help fending off the bullies, chiefly one with whose fate John is destined to be intertwined until the movie's final moments. And being socially spurned by a richer boy plants a terrible seed of anger. He becomes one of the Non-Educated Delinquents, or Neds. Just as he was no ordinary scholar, John becomes no ordinary tearaway: he becomes violent and psychotic. The film tells the story of John McGill played with naturalistic intensity by newcomer Conor McCarron , a promising Glaswegian schoolboy with an apparently-bright future.
The people who inhabit it, meanwhile, constantly navigate their way over a literal knife-edge where violence is always a wrong word or misread look away. These moments are portrayed with a realism that is true to life — they are vicious, mindless and short-lived — but it is their after-effects, the physical and mental scars that they incur, which are lingered on the longest: one character in particular, who begins the film with a full face of skin, ends it as a beef-witted patchwork of reconstituted tissue — a truly harrowing transformation.
Amidst the brutality, however, there is a streak of wicked Scottish humour that runs throughout. Yet for all its merits, Neds is bedevilled by some serious third-act flaws. Information and help on editorial areas and special data areas can be found in the CultureBase Infos Hub. The description of software can be found in the Support area. In the FAQ section you will find a wide range of tips and information. If you have any problems, you can reach the Kulturserver editorial team at the address Redaktion kulturserver.
Nominations Features Documentaries. UK Synopsis NEDS Non-educated delinquents is the story of a young man's journey from prize-winning schoolboy to knife-carrying teenager, struggling against the low expectations of those around him, John McGill changes from victim to avenger, scholar to Ned, altar boy to glue sniffer.
When he attempts to change back again, his new reality and recent past make conformity near impossible and violent self-determination near inevitable. Director's Statement I think the best, though not the only, way to describe my overall approach to filming NEDS is "impressionistic", In the sense that composition, lighting, mlse-en-scene etc will be determined as much by the Inner-life of the protagonist, John, as by the events and people who affect him.
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