The Dead Hour (2013)
The sequel to The Field of Blood, an adaptation of Denise Mina's novel. It's 1984 and Paddy Meehan tries to make a career for herself in her dream job, working the night shift on the call car, against the backdrop of the miner's strike and the changing face of journalism. The arrival of a new editor in chief threatens to thwart her ambitions and hopes for happiness, whilst,an innocuous call to a disturbance in a posh area of Glasgow leads her to uncover a cold-blooded murder.
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All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.
While it is a pity that the story wasn't told with more visual finesse, this is trivial compared to our real-world problems. It takes a good movie to put that into perspective.
One of the film's great tricks is that, for a time, you think it will go down a rabbit hole of unrealistic glorification.