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We watched this a bit ago after I skim read Mark Kermode's review; "empowering, uplifting, East London, crowd-pleasing" etc.
Should probably have given the review a bit more attention though, it's a bleak/depressing watch in places and properly spooked my wife out as we played spot the local neighbourhood, having earlier spoken about where we want our child to go to school/grow up...
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Ah that's a shame. My partner and i actually thought the school scenes showed a well constructed balance of different backgrounds and avoided (to use a 40 year old version quote) "poverty porn". For me the grimness was centred around one families very dire circumstances but wasn't a reflection on the general situation.
jono84
Rocks on Netflix was excellent. Tough in places but didn't leave me broken like Nobody knows.
And following the Sunday afternoon musical vibe from last week The Forty-Year-Old-Version was super good. Rahda Blank was phenomenal.
Any more music focused gems i should look out for? I generally dislike musicals but i'm starting to enjoy live music in film a lot more. Sound of Metal is on the list and already watched/liked whiplash (it's a boxing movie...).