UK: "I'm British. Island mentality innit"

‘I’m British. Island mentality innit.’ A bailiff clears out the house of an unsuspecting couple, but is angered by their surprise. Why should he care - British values have always put individualism at the cost of everything else haven’t they?
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kzbin.info/www/bejne/bpewaIKwna5jl80 ► The Guardian and Headlong theatre company present a foreign language drama series about the continent, from the continent. Europeans features films made in Germany, France, UK, Ireland, Poland, Sweden and Spain, exploring the relationships of member countries to the European Union

[@maxambrose8839]

You deserve your dispossession, because Island mentality, init. Very sneakily done by the guardian.

[@sebas8225]

WE live in a society.

[@woojenny5216]

Love and respect from Hong Kong

[@evolassunglasses4673]

Cringe.

[@o.b.s.m.l.v.6234]

Show some sYmPafffeeee

[@AA-hi6os]

selfishness and greed individualized. We're better than this. At leat, e thought we were.

[@stressfreecontent]

Absolute genius.

[@thanos8403]

I’m bit confused is this about wind rush or something

[@charlesnyagah7423]

Storytelling at a Pulitzer level

[@stezman60]

Dog eat Dog.

[@polodelmar9852]

reality is tough to contemplate even if you see it in a mirror.

[@Gianfranco_69]

And its all fantasy......Middle class AutoErotica

[@WILKSVILLE]

pityful

[@normburns9619]

I was actually enjoying this series until the British episode. Typical of the Guardian that in the whole series they make the guy with the British identity and supposed British morality to be the most unlikable and unpalatable of all. Even the others in the series that are anti-EU are more relatable, more sincere, more honorable in their point of view. Of course, with the British episode it's just narrow-mindedness and racism of British identity! It's the same leftist self-hate from the Guardian. It was also the most abstract story of the series with the least direct relation to the EU debate.

[@bierrollerful]

I saw something completely different: somebody who was sold the idea that it's 'just the island mentality' to do what 'must be done' even if it comes at a big cost to others, to only look after their own because everyone else also only looks after their own, to believe that a monetary benefit outweighs concerns about compassion. And to accept hypocrisy as something that simply is. In the end, he admits that this idea isn't as rock solid as he was made to believe. Yet he carries on, because everyone else does so, too.

[@brenttesterman1198]

@@bierrollerful Monetary benefit and Compassion are not mutually exclusive! Peace be with you...

[@tomasruckett]

Damn, I really don't understand the hate. Maybe people don't watch theater much, but ... wow. Great acting, great sound and writing. Really moving performance. Thanks for making this!

[@aclark903]

I think we would rather have documentaries from a Newspaper.

[@andrewmorrissey7778]

This is the most powerful of all of the seven shorts!

[@mrcas187]

Deep Actor Much love

[@lightshine2786]

Mug

[@Gianfranco_69]

The acts depicted are soooooooo fantastical.... "Bailiffs" removing dusty old paperback books HAHAHAHA OH its the "Guardian" .... and now it sinks in..... Still witing for the "Reycism" 4.50 there it is...

[@grandmiserthe3rd434]

Rule Britannia

[@bangbang100francis6]

Rule Britannia Britannia rules the waves🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

[@tortozza]

Stunning and brave

[@Soluchi-InfiniteCoCreatorGod]

This is Incredible. 👏🏽

[@Toebex]

I dont really understand the message behind this, maybe its just going over my head a bit

[@billbilly]

I guess you're right.

[@martinmichael2535]

Embarrassing, "innit."

[@tmpcox]

this guy his acting... damn. He is amazing!

[@mattcameron9349]

The irony of The Guardian showing an anti-capitalist video...which is punctuated with commercials! I guess its not TOO surprising, given that they keep over £300m in tax-avoiding offshore-accounts in the Cayman Islands...

[@billbilly]

irony indeed.

[@o.b.s.m.l.v.6234]

I don't know if it's the accent or somephing, but now I want to see this character and situation in a violent Guy Ritchie movie.

[@VoreiosPolakis]

You're young. Me, I thought he was one of the working class characters in my fair lady

This guy is on point 👏a much better actor than the French girl in the other one.

[@DasGrosseFressen]

That's because he is british, and british are the BEST at everything! The best!

[@qv8281]

Ruans Jutz watch how quickly people with a fragile sense of identity will come along with the classic “he’s not really British”.

[@chrisf1600]

@@qv8281 He's not even real mate. The whole thing's scripted and acted.

[@freesaxon6835]

Rwanda isn't an island ?

[@SuperUnleash]

was surprised by the other films in the series but not with this one ,this is what we expect from the guardian that weve all grown to know and hate,but not quite as much as they hate us and England .

[@tbxmxdog9187]

The guardian truly do hate the United Kingdom.

[@Billyg215]

Is this a set up as they all seem to be BAD actors to me ???????

[@billbilly]

to you perhaps...