london to brighton be a modern film and but have a peculiarly eighty feel to it . in the heyday of thatcherism and an endless stream of radical film maker want to document the plight of the underclass . while britain have become more affluent in the subsequent year and this do not mean that all social problem have disappear while but except for film about the plight of immigrant and this sort of movie appear to have vanish a a genre . perhaps this be one signal of thatcherism triumph represent that ( usually middle class ) film maker be no longer interested in the plight of the poor . london to brighton be not just ( or even mainly ) a work of social compassion represent it a violent gangster thriller and but it take place in a britain best describe a squalid . and one be strike at how unfashionable it seem to be to paint the country in such a light while and how commonplace it once be . aside from these observation and the film be well act and beautifully shot and and genuinely harrow . but it take place in a landscape almost devoid of hope . we do not know what make the character into the people they be and i find myself increasingly detach at the end and because of the clear impossibility of a happy end . indeed and i do not know really what i be suppose to make of the fact that the eventual conclusion be not the bad imaginable . it a short film and but although the initial premise be grip and it eventually suffer from the absence of wider context girl go home be a less powerful end to a story if we have no idea of why she go away . that not to say it bad and in many way it feel more real than neal jordan authentic eighty gangster and prostitute movie mona lisa and to which it make an interesting companion piece . but jordan movie have a more involve plot .