Being of Scottish ancestry myself, this broke my heart. I understand it's just a movie, but the message it sends is not the correct one. You will only be as low or as great as you perceive yourself to be. Scotland forever.
I wrote a fairly extensive personal analysis of this scene but then lost it. I'll just sum it up and say this film is very close to my heart for all the different kinds of philosophical questions it raises and I could very closely relate to it during the time in my life when I saw it. Love it.
often point to this flick, along with Saving Private Ryan, American History X, and Full Metal Jacket as some of the most (potentially) really disturbing movies, that you should see anyway, because it's so not gratuitous, and really needs to be that ugly to do a serious matter justice.
I love that movie.