Locke: 10 Reasons It's The Most Awesome Boring Film You'll Ever See

5. It's Incredibly Emotional

Some people well up at Titanic, and there's nothing wrong with that. The swooping melodrama of it all, married with the spectacle of the actual, sinking Titanic gives the romance considerable legs, and heightens the stakes a great deal. Yet it's not realistic, is it? Chances are, you'll never be a lowly third-class guy who falls for the high society dame, or vice-versa €“ these are idealised movie roles about archetypes, meaning they're applicable to everyone, but diluted by this very accessibility. Locke's emotional beats are far more specific €“ it's about a man who cheats on his wife and is desperately scrambling to put all the pieces of his life back together, all while caning it down the M6. It's a far more relatable situation, and as such, far more emotional because of this mundanity. Thousands, if not millions of people have been in similar situations, where they've been the cheater or the cheated upon in a relationship, and millions more have seen their once-stable family units break up because of someone's mistake. As such, you can't help but be swept along by Locke's anguish. Witness when Locke's talking to his sons about the football €“ if you can't feel for the guy, then your heart might as well be made of the concrete he peddles. He knows he's screwed up, he knows things won't be the same, and, most painfully, he knows that such idyllic family evenings won't be possible again. Couple this with his son's heartbreaking proposition that they'll watch the match with him again, but pretend they don't know the score, and you've got emotional dynamite on your hands. It's just incredibly sad, precisely because it's so ordinary.