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26 May 2012 4:11 PM, PDT | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »

From Goldie to Edwina Currie, leading figures from music, politics, film, charities and the media assess Plan B's directorial debut

Camila Batmanghelidjh

Founder of Kids Company, a London charity for vulnerable young people

The film is an incredibly accurate portrait of that kind of environment. It wasn't two-dimensional in that the characters weren't just purely evil – the good in them also showed. I've met all those characters in the course of my work. The little boys terrorised into joining the criminal network are just so real. It demonstrated what I keep telling people: don't say a child chooses to join a gang; there is no choice. The cycle of brutalisation, with kids brutalising kids, the girl fights, all of it is so accurate.

I want to get a copy of this film and deliver it to the prime minister and say: "This is another bit of your country that you don't talk about, »

- Lethal Bizzle, Edwina Currie

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