Film: Blue Story
Starring: Stephen Odubola, Micheal Ward, Eric Kofi-Abrefa, Khali Best, Karla-Simone Spence, Richie Campbell, Jo Martin, Junior Afolabi Salokun
Director: Rapman
Rating: ***1/2
Reviewer: George Sylex
Overview - After the achievement of his 2014 YouTube show Shiro's Story, film director and writer Andrew Onwubolu (Rapman) banded together with BBC Films to adjust the story as a full length film. In spite of the debate encompassing the arrival of the film, with film chains Vue and Showcase restricting showings following savagery at certain screenings, this truly is an indispensable film with such an amazing anti gang message at its center.
My Review - Two closest companions, two distinct postcodes. Blue Story tells the convenient story of how a continuous gang war in the bequests of South East London transformed a dear kinship into a dangerous contention. Following an assault on his companion Marco (Micheal Ward) by an old elementary school companion, Timmy (Stephen Odubola) ends up entangled in an endless pattern of savagery between the Peckham Boys and Ghetto Boys.
Blue Story plays out like a Shakespeare disaster with its portrayal of the vanity of gang brutality. In view of the personal encounters of the film's creator, the primary demonstration is a convincing, and often engaging secondary school show as Timmy and Marco explore GCSEs, parties and becoming hopelessly enamored with, the danger of posse fighting continually approaching. However, one horrendous occurrence changes both of their lives always, and quick forward three years, the film takes a dark and abrasive turn with a courageous glance at how these guys can get sucked into the ceaseless pattern of savagery and reprisal.
Blue Story draws the distinct truth of how neediness, bigotry, and the absence of possibilities is especially influencing these kid's lives. Onwubolu's profound quality story gets the ascent blade and violent wrongdoing in London to the frontier with document film intensely weaved all through to help us to remember the crude truth, demonstrating a significant second for dark British film-production since Noel Clarke's and Menhaj Huda's Kidulthood. Onwubolu doesn't avoid the severe viciousness of the turf war, astutely surrounding it with the staggering impact it has on the youngsters' moms and families.
Onwubolu still incorporates flashes of good faith. There are splinters of expectation stripping off the turning wheels that drive this culture. What's more, his film, at just an hour and a half, is tight and saving. His cast is great. Odubola is phenomenal as Timmy, constantly excessively constrained contrasted with his progressively rumbustious closest companions Marco, Hakeem (Kareem Ramsay), and Dwayne (Rohan Nedd), yet with a spine that implies he won't down when it is more secured to run. Timmy's change to a grown-up solidified by torment is as conceivable as it is lamentable to see him proceeding with the cycle. Ward, the winner of the BAFTA Rising Star award, expertly depicts the constantly progressively common Marco as a happy child with an edge holding on to be misused.
My Final Word - Blue Story is an incredible and significant British crime drama that genuinely packs a passionate punch, featuring the unnecessary catastrophe and results of gangs.
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