![]() Bang! Time for a romp.Īgain, this could be the set-up for a light-hearted caper, or a creepy locals story. ![]() From then on, it’s what in a lighter film might be a comedy of errors, as Marcus and Vaughn endeavour to hide the body and cover up their location, before realising they’re stuck in the town for the weekend while they wait on repairs to their car. Vaughn finds one, lines up a shot, pauses to take a breath, fires – and the deer moves its head, revealing a young boy standing right behind it, who falls down dead. The next morning, with Vaughn heavily hungover and Marcus snorting coke to take the edge off, they head out to the woods to stalk deer. They pitch up in the small town of Culcarran and meet assorted locals at a bar near their hotel, getting good and drunk together. Vaughn (Jack Lowden) and Marcus (Martin McCann) are old school friends off on a hunting trip in the Highlands as a sort of final get-together before Vaughn becomes a dad. And it doesn’t let the protagonists off the hook and try to pretend they’re good guys, really: it makes us stare at them across its hour-and-a-half runtime and contemplate what it is they’ve done. It’s fuck-up after fuck-up, turning an already very bad thing into something much, much worse. Where most films would use that as the inciting incident, leading to a fun road movie, a slide into vice, or a big action extravaganza, Calibre keeps its characters in the immediate aftermath of the decision and rubs their noses in it. You know: the gun goes off in a tussle, someone ends up dead, and instead of calling the police, they try to cover it up, making things ten times worse for themselves. Calibre is a sort of extended meditation on the kinds of terrible decisions characters in films so often make.
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