Sunday 7 February 2010

THE FIRM on DVD



This week saw the release of Nick Love's latest 80s inspired tale. The Firm pays homage to Alan Clarke's 1989 opus of the same name albeit from a different angle. Clarkes covers the hooliganism from the lead characters [bexie] perspective and is set in 1988 whereas Love's is from the view of casual wannabe Dom and covers a sportswear dominant 1984. 
Its clear that this is Nick's period and he re-enacts the time with as much attention to detail as is possible. The purists out there will jump on certain scenes as out of sync ie; JD Sports didn't open in London until 1989 plus the music time-line is up to 4 years out but for £10 theres no other film going to be made that covers such an intrinsic part of casual history. Yes theres over-kill on the sportswear but take into account Fila and Tacchini plus JD no less became major players in the wardrobe department then it seemed acceptable to re-write history to a certain degree. The extras part of the DVD has a 'making-of documentary' which is certainly worth a watch as it goes behind the scenes of the film with a peak inside the wardrobe department.