Dvd review: In the loop

A group of politicians sets about starting the war in Iraq.

This movie is a spinoff of “The thick of it”, is practically the same stuff of the little known British TV serial but no previous knowledge of it is required, there is no reference to previous plotlines or stuff like that, is just a bigger, meaner version of the original.

There is a nominal plot with a lot of intrigues and betrayals about it but apart from being really complicated is also not that important because, after approximately 5 seconds you’ll be lost in the beauty of the dialogues.

Now is important to be really clear, these dialogues are some of the most vulgar stuff you’ll ever hear in your life, there is a level of dialectic violence here that is unparalleled so if you are one of those easily offended types, steer clear away of this movie.

The selling point of this movie is all here, in insults so over the top, so brilliantly constructed, that they acquire a strange kind of musicality. It’s a strange and wicked pleasure to watch those despicable individuals, led by the most despicable of them all, Malcolm (Peter Capaldi) the spin doctor of the British Prime Minister, go about the business of politics.

This is also I fear, a fairly accurate depiction of how modern politics works, exemplar is the figure of Simon Forster (Tom Hollander) who finds itself at the center of the political turmoil about the war in Iraq thanks to a series of erroneous statements.

This movie is one of the most quotable movies ever, an hilarious experience.

“Climbing the mountain of conflinct”? You sounded like a nazi Julie Andrews!

Malcolm Tucker