Here Are the Young Men (2021)
Directed by Eoin Macken
Dublin teenagers Matthew, nihilistic Rez, and the deranged Kearney, leave school to a social vacuum of drinking and drugs, falling into shocking acts of transgression.
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It takes a few minutes to get past the feeling that “Here Are the Young Men” isn’t a simplistic “Trainspotting” homage, some sort of boys-come-of-age, generationally-indulgent wank with an Irish accent.
Say you haven’t seen Mean Streets or Trainspotting or American Pie or Lost Boys or Beats or Reprise or Rebel Without a Cause or frankly any movie in which males bond.
There is an inevitable Trainspotting vibe to the early scenes as the trio indulges a lust for life.
There are noteworthy takes on teen machismo, and its flaws, and at times it's reminiscent of '90s cult favorite Trainspotting.
With its brash stylistic gambits (including frequent cutaways to a satirical faux game show that at one point offers an inexplicable cameo appearance from Noomi Rapace), driving soundtrack and cheekily nihilistic approach, it is pretty clear right from the start that Eoin Mackin wants his film, adapted from Rob Doyle's 2014 novel, to be looked upon as a sort of Irish "Trainspotting."
Mixing together the debauchery of Trainspotting with the youthful disaffection of Skins (the British version, of course), director Eoin Macken’s film Here Are the Young Men, based on the 2014 novel by Rob Doyle, is a cynical look at three frustrated young men during the summer after they graduate from school, circa 2003.