Length: 07:10
Written by Tony Hurely. Directed by Ryan Owen aka Ryan Owen Eddleston.
Genre: Drama
Date: 2011
Rating: ★★★☆☆
Logline: A young couple's relationship is tested when they discover they are pregnant.
This has been on my list of films to review for a long time now but for some reason I could never get past the first minute and a half. Okay, there is a reason, I wasn't hooked. Something which is essential to do in any film and often hard to achieve in dramas, especially relationship dramas, where if you've in any way familiar with Jeremy Kyle, you've seen it all before.
Technically, this is well shot, has some nice cinematography, sound and lighting are of a high standard and has been edited together competently. Like the film, performances by Shekira Johnson and Brent Morgan are understated, show good pacing and are naturalistic. Johnson manages to pull off that 'chavvy' attitude with just a look while Morgan delivers his lines with meaning.
Dialogue is fitting, sparse and realistic but audiences will be hard pushed to really like either of these characters. The film's subject matter makes you feel like you're watching some Saturday night domestic where the only person you feel sorry for is the innocent unborn kid. So this doesn't rate high on the entertainment scale and doesn't particularly show anything we haven't seen before either. A good technical piece with good acting but not much else.
This has been on my list of films to review for a long time now but for some reason I could never get past the first minute and a half. Okay, there is a reason, I wasn't hooked. Something which is essential to do in any film and often hard to achieve in dramas, especially relationship dramas, where if you've in any way familiar with Jeremy Kyle, you've seen it all before.
Technically, this is well shot, has some nice cinematography, sound and lighting are of a high standard and has been edited together competently. Like the film, performances by Shekira Johnson and Brent Morgan are understated, show good pacing and are naturalistic. Johnson manages to pull off that 'chavvy' attitude with just a look while Morgan delivers his lines with meaning.
Dialogue is fitting, sparse and realistic but audiences will be hard pushed to really like either of these characters. The film's subject matter makes you feel like you're watching some Saturday night domestic where the only person you feel sorry for is the innocent unborn kid. So this doesn't rate high on the entertainment scale and doesn't particularly show anything we haven't seen before either. A good technical piece with good acting but not much else.
Best Bit: Cinematography.
Worst Bit: Nothing new to the genre here.
Final thought: Thought I'd heard that end of credit soundtrack somewhere before. The guy only used it in another of his films Tentboy, where he was going by a slightly different name???
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