Another film by McQueen who doesn’t shy away from the difficult areas of life. He chooses actors who have the ability to translate his passion for the truth into gut wrenching characterisation. The captured slave, the brutal sadistic slave master, the traumatised young black woman broken by life. McQueen’s genius is to portray the endurance of the human spirit without sentiment or superficiality. The film ranks in terms of his courage to confront the politics of oppression with the portrayal of Bobby Sands’s death in ‘Hunger’; both are historically significant.
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A man in an existential crisis brilliantly acted by Tom Hardy. He drives alone late at night along the motorway, contemplating where his loyalties and duties lie. At the same time he imagines himself speaking with his dead father who persecuted and criticised him, and through internal dialogue and actual conversations over the phone , Locke struggles to become true to himself without losing his personal integrity. The film is beautifully shot and atmospheric, intense, clever, gripping and highly recommended.
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Marguerite Valentine is a former child protection specialist now writing psychological thrillers. Her debut novel is 'Between The Shadow And The Soul'.