Naked is the story of frustratingly awful people behaving in frustratingly awful ways. David Thewlis plays the main character who goes on long annoying rants about everything in the world, and yet for some reason he finds people willing to sit through his babbling. This is the type of irritating good-for-nothing guy who would probably be more likely to find himself living on the street and begging for loose change on a subway platform in real life. He's made even more reprehensible by the way he uses and abuses women, so I struggled to tolerate him any time he was on screen. It almost felt like the equally offensive character played by Greg Cruttwell was needlessly added to the film so that we'd find someone worse to watch and could possibly think Thewlis was somewhat redeemable by comparison. But since he wasn't rampantly murdering people or something markedly worse, he just felt like a different take on the same guy. There's really no plot to talk about in Naked, so all you're left with is the atrocious characters and the nonsense ramblings that come from their mouths. None of this stuff was all that tolerable (with a couple interesting snippets that stood out from the rest,) so Naked was a complete bust for me as I expected.
Review of Naked
