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Joseph means of the many disadvantages in his life because he was haunted by a past bad. Joseph decided to board a boat bound for Ireland to forget those past memories, meeting with his sister Anna, whom he had not seen since childhood. Joseph was able to get a new job as Anna persuaded her husband to be cautious about allowing Joseph to stay. In this new work, Joseph is confronted with memories of his past as he is forced to confront his past immediately when he meets a mysterious.
It's not an easy watch, as much for the feeling of rubbernecking a private hell as for its gut-puking moments. But it's that very intimacy that makes The Virtues special.
In Joseph, director Shane Meadows, co-writer Jack Thorne and actor Stephen Graham have created a character strobing with vulnerability whose struggles feel achingly real.
Unspoken pain infuses every scene, every gesture and expression from Graham and in doing so lays the foundations, surely, to do justice to the suffering of victims everywhere.
Graham is an actor of raw emotional power, nakedly honest and unpredictable, but I spent whole minutes of the first episode wanting to be anywhere else but in a room with him, as he suffered and tried to deal with his suffering.