The Selfish Giant Page #5

Synopsis: An official selection at the Cannes Film Festival, The Selfish Giant is a contemporary fable about 13 year old Arbor (Conner Chapman) and his best friend Swifty (Shaun Thomas). Excluded from school and outsiders in their own neighborhood, the two boys meet Kitten (Sean Gilder), a local scrap dealer. Wandering their town with just a horse and a cart, they begin collecting scrap metal for him. Swifty has a natural gift with horses while Arbor emulates Kitten - keen to impress him and make some money. However, Kitten favors Swifty, leaving Arbor feeling hurt and excluded, driving a wedge between the boys. As Arbor becomes increasingly greedy and exploitative, tensions build, leading to a tragic event that transforms them all.
Genre: Drama
Director(s): Clio Barnard
Production: Sundance Selects
  12 wins & 18 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.3
Metacritic:
83
Rotten Tomatoes:
97%
NOT RATED
Year:
2013
91 min
$12,189
Website
447 Views


Sunday, A-65.

- Course.

- Let's have a look at him,

then.

- Who?

- Shergar.

Who do you f***ing think?

Diesel. Come on.

- All right.

- See you later.

- Come on.

Here he is.

- Whoa, here we go.

- Hey, hey. Hey. hey.

What are you doing,

you bloody idiot?

Come here.

Come here! Come here!

- Steady.

Steady. Steady. Steady.

Steady, lad.

Steady, lad.

Steady.

- Good lad.

- Steady.

- He's fast.

He's fast, you know.

- Going backwards.

- Oh, f*** off.

- Or with a rocket up its arse.

- What the f***ing hell

were you doing, doing that?

Come on, Daniel.

Come round here, now.

Daniel. Daniel.

- Are you nervous?

You're sucking on that fag

well enough, aren't you?

Do you think you're up

to driving this horse or what?

Because if I don't think

you are,

I'm gonna have

another few quid on...

- I don't think he's gonna win.

- All right, do you not?

- Nah.

- 50 quid on Diesel.

50 f***ing quid.

- Anybody else want a bet

or what?

- Hey, Kitten,

he's sh*t himself.

- Finish line, this.

- Yeah!

- They go under here full go.

It's sick!

- Yeah!

- Come on! Come on! Come on!

- If Diesel wins,

Kitten'll be loaded.

- Come on!

- Get your money ready, Kitten!

- Go on! Go on!

- Come on!

- Go on, Diesel!

- Go on, lad!

Go on!

Go on, Diesel.

Good lad!

- Come on, Diesel!

Go on!

- Diesel's in the lead!

- Go on!

- Go on, Diesel.

Go on, lad.

- Come on, Daniel!

Get up there!

Get back, you!

- F*** off, man!

What are you doing?

- Keep up, Daniel.

He can't see the car!

He's got his blinders on!

- Get off me, man!

F***ing hell.

- Daniel, get up there!

- You're spooking him!

He's gonna get him hurt.

- Come on!

Get back, you f***ing a**hole!

- Stop pulling him back!

Give him his head.

Send him!

- F***ing hell, you!

Get back!

- Go on! Keep going!

You can do it!

Go on!

- Get up there!

Come on!

Come on!

- Yeah!

- F***ing bastard!

- F***! F***!

F***!

- What?

What? What?

- What the f***

were you playing at?

- Weren't my fault.

A car got too close.

- I'll have your balls off.

- It's that horse.

It's spooked.

- Don't blame it

on my f***ing horse!

- It's mental out there.

- Out of my sight.

- They're all laughing at you

behind your back.

Laughing at you playing

a hard man,

when all you are is

a f***ing wannabe Gypsy.

- All right, all right,

all right, all right.

Come on. Calm down.

Don't let me ever see you again

or I'll f***ing kill you!

- We'll work for you.

- Get my horse in that box.

- Let me drive him for you.

- Swifty,

we're gonna be scrap men, us.

- Ain't got no money.

- Well, if you haven't got

the money,

we have to take the settee,

love.

- Ain't got settee, neither.

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Clio Barnard

Clio Barnard is a British director of documentary and feature films. She won widespread critical acclaim and multiple awards for her debut, The Arbor, an experimental documentary about Bradford playwright Andrea Dunbar. In 2013 she was hailed as a significant new voice in British cinema for her film The Selfish Giant, which premiered in the Director's Fortnight section of the Cannes film festival. more…

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