I knew Still Wakes the Deep was special when it blind-sided me with an insulin joke that Kevin Bridges would be proud to have written.

For the previous hour, I’d been sweating with dread. Then the director hit my heart-strings with scenes of love and loss in working-class Glasgow. Finally, the insulin joke arrived.

Cameron McLeary had just been asked by his diabetic pal Roy to fetch some insulin. The only problem is the drugs are on the other side of the oil rig where Cameron – Caz to his mates – and Roy work. To get the insulin, Caz must once again brave whatever is lurking on the rig and killing the crew one by one.

“Can you no just eat some f***ing jam, big man?” Caz says. After the dread, the writers and director perfectly popped the tension with the kind of well-timed, perfectly observed gallows humour you hear in Glasgow every day.

Sounds like a great Scottish film, right? It’s not. Still Wakes the Deep is a video game. And it’s also the best piece of entertainment to come out of Scotland in years – including novels, films, plays, or art exhibitions. SWTD dares to say as much about Scotland as any other art-form.

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