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To say that this film is the most real film that I've watched in a long time?

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BeyondApproach · 20/09/2022 00:19

I don't know what gets films nominated for Oscars or Emmys (or is that for music?) but this film, the direction? The actors are fucking unbelievably talented (young). It was like watching real life. It feels like you're watching a documentary rather than a film as their acting is so unbelievably good.

It's this one. Rocks

The story is moving. It's a film I personally needed to watch because I can be a little bit of an arsehole and I tend to only consider my own pain and not consider what other people might be going through.

It's set in London. I've never seen anything as good in my life. Honestly. If you watch nothing else this week, watch this.

Watch it. Cannes film festival? Somebody has to pick this up. It's OUTSTANDING.

If anyone has watched it, I'd love to see whether you felt the same as me? It's a life I'm surrounded by but never really get to see inside.

If this film doesn't win at least one award, then there's a lot wrong with the film festival award things.

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NumberTheory · 20/09/2022 01:56

Thanks for the recommendation, OP.

The director, Sarah Gavron, also directed the film Suffragette which was a really well done telling of the fight for women’s suffrage.

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BeyondApproach · 20/09/2022 02:00

NumberTheory · 20/09/2022 01:56

Thanks for the recommendation, OP.

The director, Sarah Gavron, also directed the film Suffragette which was a really well done telling of the fight for women’s suffrage.

I'll look that one up. Thanks for the recommendation.

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BeyondApproach · 20/09/2022 02:13

OhShutIt · 20/09/2022 01:25

Amazing film OP. All so talented. Equally has me considering adoption. Or at least thinking that I should 'maybe' consider it...

I think there are a lot of lost older children and young teens who would benefit massively from a secure home. Somewhere safe where they can be arseholes and know that they're not going to get booted out for just being kids/teens. I'd love to do it but sadly my health is not good. Adopting a little dog is about as much as I'm good for right now. I've lived a sort of strange life where I've never felt 'at home'. I would love to be a safety net for somebody.

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Bloodybridget · 20/09/2022 02:22

It's a brilliant film - DP and I watched it when it was first available on Netflix. We live pretty much where it's set and was filmed, and to the pp who said no decent person would want to live in such a neighbourhood, don't be ridiculous.

WoodlandWalks123 · 20/09/2022 02:36

Thanks for the recommendation OP, sleepless night so I already watched it - brilliant film and very realistic (apart from Agnes who seemed a bit too well spoken to have grown up there all her life imo).

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BeyondApproach · 20/09/2022 02:38

WoodlandWalks123 · 20/09/2022 02:36

Thanks for the recommendation OP, sleepless night so I already watched it - brilliant film and very realistic (apart from Agnes who seemed a bit too well spoken to have grown up there all her life imo).

Which one was Agnes?

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BeyondApproach · 20/09/2022 02:39

Bloodybridget · 20/09/2022 02:22

It's a brilliant film - DP and I watched it when it was first available on Netflix. We live pretty much where it's set and was filmed, and to the pp who said no decent person would want to live in such a neighbourhood, don't be ridiculous.

The whole message in the film is that these people are 'decent' people.

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WoodlandWalks123 · 20/09/2022 02:42

She was the white girl in the friendship group who apparently had also been to primary school with Rocks. I know I pick up accents from those around me (and at school I spoke with an innit type accent as that was around me and how my friends spoke). Maybe it’s just me!

WoodlandWalks123 · 20/09/2022 02:46

Definitely loved the feeling of everyone with different cultures growing up together and understanding each other. Me and DH both have childhood friendship groups like this - amazing bonds even to this day and the joy of growing up in London.

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BeyondApproach · 20/09/2022 02:49

WoodlandWalks123 · 20/09/2022 02:42

She was the white girl in the friendship group who apparently had also been to primary school with Rocks. I know I pick up accents from those around me (and at school I spoke with an innit type accent as that was around me and how my friends spoke). Maybe it’s just me!

Oh she was the girl who told her Mum?

The scene at the end on the beach - God almighty - broke my heart.

That is the reality for some kids. MN has a lot of wealthy posters who couldn't imagine a life without holidays and visiting heritage sites on the weekends. Worlds apart in the same city.

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Bloodybridget · 20/09/2022 02:55

BeyondApproach · 20/09/2022 02:39

The whole message in the film is that these people are 'decent' people.

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Yes, of course!

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BeyondApproach · 20/09/2022 02:56

I've moved in a lot of spheres of society in my life. I'm currently the dregs of society 😮

I had a carer for a few months last year. She was absolutely brilliant. 19 I think. She was proactive, enthusiastic, intelligent, organised. I was like 'girl - you could be earning 40 or 50k in the city as a PA!' She has her own dreams though. She was setting up her own natural makeup and skincare branding. One of the teams who worked with me tried to headhunt her actually. The lead character reminds me of that girl.

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talknomore · 20/09/2022 03:06

Thanks for the recomendation. Will watching tomorrow.

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BeyondApproach · 20/09/2022 03:11

I had to laugh at 'Hastings? 1066?'

Lol

It's just priceless. The sheer innocence of them while they're shouldering very adult loads too.

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Msgrieves · 20/09/2022 03:14

Eh it was alright, prefered top boy in the same vein. Tbh not a lot happened.

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BeyondApproach · 20/09/2022 03:21

Msgrieves · 20/09/2022 03:14

Eh it was alright, prefered top boy in the same vein. Tbh not a lot happened.

Agreed. It's not a high intensity action film. I think it's more realistic.

In case I have mislead anyone, this isn't an exciting action thriller or anything like that.

Less Hollywood. It's really not the type of film I watch at all. I'm not sure how I ended up watching it actually. It somehow popped up on Netflix as recommended for me based on other films I had watched maybe. I'm really glad I got to watch it. It's one of those films which stays with you.

Might not be to everyone's taste perhaps.

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Msgrieves · 20/09/2022 03:23

I think it's because you don't watch films like this that you think it is astonishing. Try tyrannosaur or precious. Actually really really don't, very depressing.

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BeyondApproach · 20/09/2022 03:43

Msgrieves · 20/09/2022 03:23

I think it's because you don't watch films like this that you think it is astonishing. Try tyrannosaur or precious. Actually really really don't, very depressing.

Yeah, I tend to watch Hollywood-happy-ending or high action or thriller films. Depends on the humour I'm in. I love comedies too - particularly ones with the short black guy who usually ends up getting involved in criminality in some way or another lol. I think his name is Kevin Hart. He's hilarious. Love Bruce Willis. Dwayne Johnson?
I'm not one for 'artsy' type films. 'Withnail and I' was one I absolutely loathed for example, though all my friends loved it and I thought it was a load of shite 😂. A lot of films which have won Oscars are the most boring pieces of film ever to have been made lol. Fences being a case in point.

There's another lovely film I watched but it's on Amazon Prime rather than Netflix. It's called 'Dog'.

I love films with children or animals in them. Or crime shit if I'm feeling good lol.

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PinkSyCo · 20/09/2022 03:47

Ooh this film looks right up my street. Thanks for the recommendation OP. 👍

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BeyondApproach · 20/09/2022 03:52

PinkSyCo · 20/09/2022 03:47

Ooh this film looks right up my street. Thanks for the recommendation OP. 👍

Hope you enjoy it.

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madasawethen · 20/09/2022 04:13

Appreciate your bringing it up as I have never heard of it and it does sound good.

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BeyondApproach · 20/09/2022 08:51

5 bikes stolen? How much of a twit is he?

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FayeGovan · 20/09/2022 08:53

Do you know another one like that?

"The angels share."

Especially if you're Scottish.

Its brilliant.

SuperCamp · 20/09/2022 08:53

I live in an area of S London where kids grow up like this. My Dc were at school with young people living in chaos and risk. I semi-adopted one of them who was a friend of my Dc and his friends. A welcome for dinner a few times a week, support and advice when asked. Gentle help towards the Uni process (no one in his family finished school or had ever had jobs, his brothers were in prison, one dead). He was certainly not ‘detritus’, he is a lovely intelligent lad with nothing going for him.

Luckily a good comprehensive school (he would never have done an exam for a grammar system) supported him and many others like him (it was not a leafy school!) to build a life away from chaos and crime.

Rocks is a film which shows just how hard life is for kids in situations which are not if their making.

Let’s see what Truss’s emergency budget and new grammar schools do for these kids. Ha Fucking Ha.

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