WIZEB wrote:
Anybody been watching 'Skint' of a Monday night?
Depressingly amusing.
A sad indictment of what our politicians have managed to deliver over the last 30 odd years.
To be honest its a sad indictment of what our documentary makers are managing to deliver, its predictable bottom of the barrel scraping claptrap and does not address any of the issues that it sets out to.
Yes we all know that in an employment blackspot like Scunthorpe/Grimsby there will be families like the ones portrayed and with youth unemployment like it is there will be kids with nothing to do and no money to spend but for every one they feature in this program there are probably 100 others who don't behave in these ways and who are genuinely struggling to survive on what handouts and charity they can get from a government who fails to acknowledge their existence.
The film makers missed a chance to make a proper social documentary that will be viewed in 20 years time as radical, instead they made it into a set-up comedy that will cause no change of thought amongst any of the viewers - its lazy program making, cheap throw-away 1 hour slot fillers that tell nothing and cure nothing.
