Most of Refn’s things is about repression, his protagonists like aliens to the societies with which they are forced to engage. On the inside, they are as mercurial as the motion picture itself. Kyle Soska and Nicolas Christin (13 August 2015). "Measuring the Longitudinal Evolution of the Online Anonymous Marketplace Ecosystem" (PDF).
While Wain and his merry band of comedy geeks have their entertaining paying out tribute to the previous generation, in particular Thomas Lennon as living time bomb Michael O’Donoghue, it all melts into the identical outdated sentimentalism by the finish.