The Proposition + I’ll Sleep When I’m Dead

Episode Notes

Fraternal revenge! Decidedly foreign takes of crime genres typically reserved for American cinema! Pairing up a listener pick! Release the bats is a real song and it’s actually good? The Birthday Party is not The Birthday Massacre. Also, El-P has a really good album called I’ll Sleep When You’re Dead. Anyways, who are the characters in The Proposition and what do they tell us about the themes of the film? DVDs: you wouldn’t steal car, would you? The brutality of the western and why American westerns never showcased it. From Michael Koester’s extensive Clive Owen collection comes I’ll Sleep When I’m Dead. An alternate angle to cover the rape revenge film from.

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The Proposition

Released: October 6, 2005
Runtime: 104 min | IMDB | Wikipedia

Director: John Hillcoat
Writer: Nick Cave
Starring: Guy Pearce, Ray Winstone, Emily Watson

Set in the Australian outback in the 1880s, the movie follows the series of events following the horrific rape and murder of the Hopkins family, allegedly committed by the infamous Burns brothers gang. Captain Morris Stanley captures Charlie Burns and gives him 9 days to kill his older dangerous psychopathic brother, or else they'll hang his younger mentally slow brother on Christmas Day.

I’ll Sleep When I’m Dead

Released: May 14, 2003
Runtime: 103 min | IMDB | Wikipedia

Director: Mike Hodges
Writer: Trevor Preston
Starring: Clive Owen, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Charlotte Rampling

Will Graham, a former London crime boss who has left his former life to live as a recluse in the forest. Haunted by the blood of those he has murdered, Will wishes never to return. But when his brother commits suicide, following a sexual assault at the hands of a volatile car dealer, Will returns to London to discover the cause of his brother's death and administer justice to those responsible.