![]() We see the three men during a visit to his mother in prison, where Liam is to smuggle drugs to her with a kiss. The movie's hero is a 15-year-old named Liam ( Martin Compston) who has already been enlisted into crime by his grandfather and his mother's boyfriend. In "Sweet Sixteen," there are no jobs, thus no wages. His "Bread and Roses" (2000) starred the future Oscar winner Adrien Brody as a union activist in Los Angeles, working to organize a group of non-union office cleaners and service employees. The director of "Sweet Sixteen," Ken Loach, is political to the soles of his shoes, and his films are often about the difficulties of finding dignity as a working person. True, and the only lesson I can learn from that is that in both countries too many young people correctly understand that society has essentially written them off. Yes, you say, but this movie is set in Scotland, not America.
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