Strictly average movie

A Brilliant Conflict

It's an amazing and heartbreaking story.

if their story seems completely bonkers, almost like a feverish work of fiction, you ain't heard nothing yet.

A rough diamond with real heart! How good to have a movie that gives more than a glimpse into the lives of homeless people! The actors were superb and each situation was so thoughtfully handled. I was grateful for the message of hope at the end. If only that was more common in real life!

Came across this film on Netflix and enjoyed every minute. Laughed and cried. The acting was so realistic and the characters really drew me in. I was surprise home d that I had not been aware of "Hector" before and was pleased to find it. The film brought home the different reasons for becoming homeless and made me and my husband think deeper about how society help. I think that this film should be shown in schools to raise awareness.

***several spoilers, so don't read if You want to be negat. surprised ***1.The homeless Peter get's a hitchhike ride by a Maserati Ghibli on the highway which is highly unrealistic. Usually those with old trash cars give a ride not luxury car drivers of a fairly new car (if it's only the bad smell and dirty clothes of those riders.2. Peter sleeps on the floor of a handicapped toilet in shopping mall and the white young cleaning man excuses himself for waking Peter up. Usually rough words would be uttered. And the cleaner would be either brown or black, at least not a young red-haired British.3. All people at the shelter are expressively friendly, the opposite is true in reality.4. Bad script, storyplay and dialogues.5.Total waste of precious time of the viewers. Watch it only for Gina McKee from "The Croupier". She can't save the story because director didn't give her the main role of the female social worker. And Peter the homeless is a lousy actor.Finally 1 star out of 10 is too much. I would give the film 0 star or even go into the minus 5 area. Sorry but this is my honest opinion. I hope director didn't receive government money and if should be forced to pay back.

Peter Mullan ('Tyrannosaur') plays the eponymous 'Hector' in this film. He is sleeping rough in some part of Scotland with two friends and it is deep winter. He is in failing health but seems to just carry on eking out an existence.The film follows him on a journey from Scotland to London to a temporary Christmas shelter that he has been attending for years. Here he knows people and sees it as a sort of family. And family is the one thing he has been running from but now feels it is time to reconnect with those from his past. Now this is a simple story on first looking at it – but the complexities that lead a person to any given point in their life are never so straightforward and that is the case here too. The film reveals at a slow pace but with absolute charm. This is the sort of film that moves you with its sheer force of story telling and sense of human frailty and as such is a wonderful piece of cinema that I can only recommend.