I really find your observations of living in such communities quite infuriating, and more to the point misleading. I mean don’t you think it’s a bit foolish making assumptions about peoples lives all on the basis that you had a reasonably okay time of it!(well finically anyways). Clearly your parent(s) where responsible enough to ensure that the bills where paid in full, but for some of us, we weren’t that fortunate, some of us sat in the dark for days on end with no *beep* food in the cupboards. Don’t get me wrong, its not like I’m encouraging or worse still celebrating poor parenting skills, I for one think people should get a grip!. But what I won’t do is allow an ill-informed person trying to spread an outright lie that there isn’t a problem within estates. Sure your right about one thing there isn’t *Ghetto’s in LONDON….BUT THERE SURE IS *SLUMS.(that’s if you want to get really anal about it).
Its your stance which really infuriates me. Sure enough I don’t come from London, but I do and have lived in various council estates throughout the United Kingdom, And there’s a consistency to the inequality of which people face on a daily basis (REGARDLESS OF SKIN TONES). You assume that everyone is of a sound mind, and that simply isn’t that case, and if you really did come from a run down area then you’d realise this. Its this tripe you utter that serves to fuel the problem instead of solving it “hey lets brush everything under the carpet…what the mother spent all her welfare money on alcohol…well that’s her problem… no, its not the fault of the hundreds of off licences in communities…no its not the fault of the breweries. or the drug dealers or the people who manufacture drugs… no… its their fault”. I guess my point is just think about what your saying I really did take offence to your fragrant indifference to what’s really happening.
As for the film, Sheer and utter brilliance! There’s way to much going on, but the thing that reverberated throughout the whole film is isolation. The parrell cutting between Ricky discovering Wisdoms body, and then to his mother/brother at the church where the Chaplin proclaimed “god will help you…yadda yaddaa” as Ricky observed his friends corpse and realises that he’s in serious trouble moved me in ways I can’t even describe. And in a funny way correlates with what I was saying above, Indifference.
Anyways 10 out of TEN =D
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alkamal_r
16 years ago
I pretty much agreed with most of what you wrote, but I don't understand why you blame the off-licences for people spending all their welfare money on alcohol. To me that's a preposterous way of thinking, and rather infuriating too. There could be a million off-licences in my community but that doesn't mean I, my parents, or anyone I know will spend all her money on alcohol. In my opinion, trying to blame others is in fact more like brushing the problem under the carpet. People should take responsibility for their own actions, regardless of their situation.
By the way I too thought the film was brilliant. Everything from the camerawork to the music used was very beautiful.
Ironically, this isn't even ironic at all.
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