DOC Ebert's Bigger Little Movie Glossary: A Greatly Expanded and Much Improved Compendium of Movie Clicheacute;s; Stereotypes; Obligatory Scenes; Hackneyed Formulas; ... Conventions; and Outdated Archetypes by Roger Ebert in Arts-Photography

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lsquo;I can see this life for exactly what it is. I can now; anyway. Wersquo;re walkinrsquo; a knife edge. One slip; one tiny slip anrsquo; we fall. Anrsquo; therersquo;s a fuck of a long way to fallhellip;even for us. Anrsquo; wersquo;re kept therehellip;on the knife edgehellip;because they can tell yer which way trsquo;go. Forward or down.rsquo;Finrsquo;s bright. Some would say gifted. But school isnrsquo;t going well. While he is busy coping with his mumrsquo;s depression and his younger brotherrsquo;s drug problem; he can feel his future slipping away. The few jobs that are available in North London are part-time or temporary; and Fin knows his future will be a life of unstable pay; minimal social security benefits; no pension and eroding health care. He is the uture of the emerging major class ndash; living precarious lives at the mercy of the one percent: The Precariat. With his world collapsing slowly around him; Fin finds hope and attraction with the girl at the fried chicken drive-through window. But even she canrsquo;t offer him a way out. Fin makes one final desperate bid to take control over the future ndash; by giving his brother the chance to turn his life aroundhellip;