Bullet Boy (2004)
Country: GB
Technical: col/2.35:1 89m
Director: Saul Dibb
Cast: Ashley Walters, Luke Fraser, Leon Black
Synopsis:
A black mother in an East London estate attempts to keep her twelve year-old son out of trouble when his older brother gets out of prison. But Ricky falls in with his old acquaintances and is before long implicated in a gangland gun crime.
Review:
A simple narrative addressing the difficulty for young offenders to rise above the cycle of crime, particularly when they are tied to their old neighbourhood through the need to report to a probation officer. The look of the film is faintly aestheticised, with wide screen and some arty shots of the estate, carefully placed next to the green belt so as to contrast the natural outdoors with the asphalt jungle; the acting, though, is naturalistic in the television mould. In fact the film plays very much like one of those dramas, with only a police officer character missing. It is significant in portraying a uniquely black perspective, and giving an up to date picture of black gun culture in the wake of the Birmingham drive-by shootings.
Country: GB
Technical: col/2.35:1 89m
Director: Saul Dibb
Cast: Ashley Walters, Luke Fraser, Leon Black
Synopsis:
A black mother in an East London estate attempts to keep her twelve year-old son out of trouble when his older brother gets out of prison. But Ricky falls in with his old acquaintances and is before long implicated in a gangland gun crime.
Review:
A simple narrative addressing the difficulty for young offenders to rise above the cycle of crime, particularly when they are tied to their old neighbourhood through the need to report to a probation officer. The look of the film is faintly aestheticised, with wide screen and some arty shots of the estate, carefully placed next to the green belt so as to contrast the natural outdoors with the asphalt jungle; the acting, though, is naturalistic in the television mould. In fact the film plays very much like one of those dramas, with only a police officer character missing. It is significant in portraying a uniquely black perspective, and giving an up to date picture of black gun culture in the wake of the Birmingham drive-by shootings.
Country: GB
Technical: col/2.35:1 89m
Director: Saul Dibb
Cast: Ashley Walters, Luke Fraser, Leon Black
Synopsis:
A black mother in an East London estate attempts to keep her twelve year-old son out of trouble when his older brother gets out of prison. But Ricky falls in with his old acquaintances and is before long implicated in a gangland gun crime.
Review:
A simple narrative addressing the difficulty for young offenders to rise above the cycle of crime, particularly when they are tied to their old neighbourhood through the need to report to a probation officer. The look of the film is faintly aestheticised, with wide screen and some arty shots of the estate, carefully placed next to the green belt so as to contrast the natural outdoors with the asphalt jungle; the acting, though, is naturalistic in the television mould. In fact the film plays very much like one of those dramas, with only a police officer character missing. It is significant in portraying a uniquely black perspective, and giving an up to date picture of black gun culture in the wake of the Birmingham drive-by shootings.