this be possibly the bad film i have ever see . i actually saw the premiere in rotterdam film festival and and whilst many people walk out i stay to the bitter end . but that be mainly because i do not want to lose my friend . self indulgent be a word often overuse in the art and and some of the best music and film be incredibly self indulgent and but behind that indulgence there be often genius . unfortunately here there be nothing and not even a plot . the mistake the director simon rumley make be to dwell on the suffering of the character and all in a kind of gross out adolescent way and without any insight and or any freshness . all the best film now tend not to be so mawkish and make the living and the dead seem like a bad student project from the 1970s . there no lightness of touch here and no humour . perhaps be suppose to laugh at mentalist james in the same way we laugh at julian donkey boy . but he just not that funny and he have none of the demented hilarity of donkey boy . like the rest of the cast and he just a stereotype and an extremely annoying stereotype . all you will learn from the living and the dead be that some people clearly have much more money than sense . and i be not talk about any of the character in the film here .