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1 Day (2009)
Glamourising our country's shame.
Storyline: One young drug dealer tells his best friend 'You owe me a hundred bags of scrilla(?), I want it in two hours or I'll lick your head off, you get me blud?' Technically, a decent film. In every other aspect, garish, non-sensical, badly written, underdeveloped and frankly, embarrassing.
A film glamorising what, personally, I feel to be the Achilles heel of Britian, inner city gang culture. Absolutely no message here, no redeeming aspects of any of the thugs depicted (and all are thugs), who are constantly unlikable. I'd like to hear an argument that the filmmaker condemns the behaviour depicted here.
I felt that the hip-hop musical numbers scattered about the story actually contributed to the mood of the film, whether this is a good thing, I'm not sure. At one point, as mentioned by another reviewer, the gang perform a rap at a bunch of civilians sitting in a fast food restaurant, the gist of it being 'You clutch your handbags because you assume we'll rob you due to us being black'... Now, I feel I must mention that this gang have pistols in their belts whilst they rap this, not to mention a bag of drug money on one of their backs.
One type of person will go to see this at the cinema. The type depicted in this disgraceful film... and those cinemas should expect trouble, especially only rated at 15.
I apologise that this isn't an in-depth review, I simply refuse to give it any more time.
Nits (2004)
Beautiful direction that caresses the story at every frame...
'Nits' is a beautifully told short story of a very young child and his two parents beginning to cope with the loss of their second child.
I believe this won last year's TCM classic short competition and it really was much-deserved.
It doesn't quite sound right to say that this was a nice little story, due to the subject matter, but the character of the story shone through brightly and sympathetically, leaving me with quite a sad feeling in my gut. You really feel for this young child who is feeling not only a disappointment for not seeing his new brother/sister, but the lack of attention from his remaining family. At no point, does he fully understand the situation, but of course we do 'for him'.
The acting is faultless, especially from this young boy. A simple but deliberate and effective script along with beautiful direction that caresses the story at every frame.
I'm pretty sure you can still view this short film online at the TCM website.
I highly recommend taking 10mins of your time to do so.