RyanT Posted May 30, 2014 Posted May 30, 2014 Not exactly a review as such, but I watched the film again the other night and found this scene really powerful, nearly had me in tears. Just that experience of Archer, hoping on some level he can relate to the warden, only for him to blow up on him. Think the up-loader of that video pretty much nails it in the description; A scene from the 1979 Film Scum, set in a Uk Borstal The warden decides to relax and offers the philosophical inmate called Archer , a coffee and a chat, secure in his position of institutionalized power and his superiority over the inmate Archer. He offers advice to Archer about what he perceives are Archers problems inside the borstal , and reflects a little on his own dutiful occupation. But during this chat, Archer decides to take an existential observation of himself and the warden, and in doing so, holds a mirror up to the wardens true position in the hierarchy of power, cuts right through the wardens hermetically sealed deluded persona which shreds him bare naked on the table of true achievement. The warden refuses to consider this " philosophical expose " of their circumstances and erupts with anger back into his conditioned persona. .
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