Ghetto: Not Just a Six Letter Word

Once Were Warriors

Anyone who thinks that New Zealand is all hobbits and sheep farts will be disenchanted by this film about a Maori family living in a slum in Auckland.

Sweet Sixteen

The same could be said about bagpipes and haggis when you get a good look at the housing estates of Glasgow.

By some Netflix sorting algorithm ("because you enjoy hair-raising films about violence and despair among disenfranchised foreign people") both these movies were in my house at the same time. They are highly recommended, although not for the squeamish or faint of heart, depicting as they do intra-family violence, rape, suicide, massive alcohol abuse, incarceration, crime, and really scary tattoos, among other unpleasant realities of the late 20th and early 21st century.

According to Wikipedia, "fuck" appeared in Sweet Sixteen 313 times, and "cunt" twenty times. Although I grew up with grandparents who spoke a more genteel version of broad Scots, I could not understand the dialogue in this movie. Had to turn on the English subtitles. And I have never heard men calling each other "cunt" so much in my entire life.