I hesitate to call watching this film an ordeal, when you see Emi's childhood, I'm not sure I know what an ordeal is. It makes you face up to an ugly past not so distant past that still feeds into today.
The story almost feels like a study Into how to displace, and tear a child's mind apart. Destroying their identity and refusing them love, leaving them alone in a cruel environment. The only love and acceptance could be found in a skinhead gang.
I'm glad he made the choice and found his way, I just wish the film dedicated more time to his rise. I felt the short montage at the end detracted from the story. The process of deradicalisation itself would have been interesting.
This film without doubt brings to attention, not just this issues of race/immigration. But also class and economics. The pitting against each other of working/non working class vs immigrants invited to the Uk to rebuild it. The sickening era of skinheads losers, cut adrift and with little to hope for. Only able to find "superiority"and pride in the denigration of immigrants.
The story almost feels like a study Into how to displace, and tear a child's mind apart. Destroying their identity and refusing them love, leaving them alone in a cruel environment. The only love and acceptance could be found in a skinhead gang.
I'm glad he made the choice and found his way, I just wish the film dedicated more time to his rise. I felt the short montage at the end detracted from the story. The process of deradicalisation itself would have been interesting.
This film without doubt brings to attention, not just this issues of race/immigration. But also class and economics. The pitting against each other of working/non working class vs immigrants invited to the Uk to rebuild it. The sickening era of skinheads losers, cut adrift and with little to hope for. Only able to find "superiority"and pride in the denigration of immigrants.