It is ultimately revealed through dream-like exchanges with Dr. However, Bruce slowly loses his grip on reality as he works the case and has more and more vivid hallucinations.
He only shows genuine warmth to Mary and her young son, the widowed wife and child of a man whom he tries and fails to resuscitate after he suffers a heart attack in the street.Īs the story begins, Bruce's main goal is to gain a promotion to become Detective Inspector, the path to which appears to open when he is assigned to oversee the investigation into the murder of a Japanese exchange student. It stars James McAvoy, Jamie Bell, and Jim Broadbent.ĭetective Sergeant Bruce Robertson, a scheming, manipulative, misanthropic bully, spends his free time indulging in drugs, alcohol, abusive sexual relationships, and "the games" - his euphemism for vindictive plots he hatches to cause trouble for people he dislikes, including many of his colleagues in the Edinburgh police force.īruce also delights in bullying and taking advantage of his mild-mannered friend Clifford Blades, a member of Bruce's masonic lodge, whose wife, Bunty, is the target of his repeated obscene phone calls. The film was released on 27 September 2013 in Scotland, 4 October 2013 elsewhere in the United Kingdom and in Ireland, and on in the United States. Baird, based on Irvine Welsh's 1998 novel Filth. Send us feedback about these examples.Filth is a 2013 black comedy crime film written and directed by Jon S. These examples are programmatically compiled from various online sources to illustrate current usage of the word 'filth.' Any opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors. 2021 Several labeled the books in question as filth or pornography, blaming the titles for contributing to a variety of societal ills. Jonathan Schifman, Popular Mechanics, 8 Aug. 2022 New York was notorious for its filth. Kate Maxwell, Condé Nast Traveler, 10 Jan. Dhruv Khullar, The New Yorker, 25 July 2022 Lacoste is crowned by a castle occupied by that notorious penner of filth, the Marquis de Sade, in the late eighteenth century.
2022 Broken glass and plastic containers stand in for grass and stones, and plastic bags dangle from spindly trees that grow in the filth. Lily Gray, Better Homes & Gardens, 25 Nov. 2022 And while a vacuum gets most of the initial mess, a mop is the best option for hidden filth. 2023 My feet were bare and dark with filth. Gary Warth, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Apr. 2022 Leaving people to rot on the side of the street, in their addictions, being raped, living in filth, not getting any proper medical care, that is not compassion. Recent Examples on the Web The new outdoor dining sheds brought even more opportunities for filth.
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