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Everything about In The Loop is just perfect. The plot description barely suffices as an adequate description of this piece of cinematic genius, but here it is anyway:
The US President and UK Prime Minister fancy a war. But not everyone agrees that war is a good thing. The US General Miller doesn’t think so and neither does the British Secretary of State for International Development, Simon Foster. But, after Simon accidentally backs military action on TV, he suddenly has a lot of friends in Washington, DC. If Simon can get in with the right DC people, if his entourage of one can sleep with the right intern, and if they can both stop the Prime Minister’s chief spin-doctor Malcolm Tucker rigging the vote at the UN, they can halt the war. If they don’t… well, they can always sack their Director of Communications Judy, who they never liked anyway and who’s back home dealing with voters with blocked drains and a man who’s angry about a collapsing wall.
Sounds promising, right? Scratching the surface. Barely. For one, British telly genius Armando Iannucci wrote and directed it, which is how you know it’s going to be fucking epic well in advance of watching so much as a trailer. There are enough reviews already published that it barely warrants recapping them, so I won’t. For me, the highlight of the film is obvious, and I’ll stick to that: Peter Capaldi.
Capaldi has long been a favourite actor of mine. If you’ve ever watched Torchwood, The Thick of It, or Skins, you probably remember him as the Scottish man with a temper. But you’ve never seen him as angry as you do in In The Loop. Have you ever heard an angry Scot? It’s funny enough on its own without adding Capaldi’s talent to the mix. Almost every line he has in the film is a blistering torrent of foul language and insults and it is funny.
Make sure you watch the the clip. And then watch the film.
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