"Why do I feel completely f**king irrelevant?"
"'Cos you are!"
Set in the 'world' of The Football Factory and very much reliant on the magnetic presence of Danny Dyer, Marching Powder focuses on hard-nut football fan Jack, approaching middle age (like T2: Trainspotting) and finding himself increasingly on the fringes of the culture and facing family pressures, with six weeks to prove to the court that he can turn his life around and avoid prison. The film's self-awareness and fourth-wall-breaking moments give it more substance than the generically liberal use of fighting, swearing (notably the frequent c-bombs) and ever-present booze and drugs, with Danny Dyer mining his notable experience and skills to deliver both the dramatic and comedic elements to good effect (similar to his BAFTA-winning presence in TV's Mr. Bigstuff), and Stephanie Leonidas as his long-suffering wife provides an interestingly calm centre to the film, providing the rather touching love story at the unexpected heart of it all. As much about the inability to change and to face up to reality as it is about toxic masculinity and violence culture, Marching Powder is a far more interesting film than its limitingly generic trailer suggests.
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