1 Day (2009)

Director:

Penny Woolcock

Writer:

Penny Woolcock (screenplay)

Release Date:

6 November 2009 (UK)

Genre:

Drama

Plot Keywords:

Number In Title

Cast

Dylan Duffus	...	Flash
Duncan Tobias	...	Evil
Yohance Watson	...	Angel
Ohran Whyte	...	Pest
Chris Wilson	...	Prison Officer

Runtime:

102 min

Country:

UK

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Certification:

UK:15 | Ireland:15A

Filming Locations:

Birmingham, West Midlands, England, UK

Company:

Blast! Films

Glamourising our country's shame.

Storyline: One young drug dealer tells his best friend 'You owe me a hundred bags of scrilla(?), I want it in two hours or I'll lick your head off, you get me blud?' Technically, a decent film. In every other aspect, garish, non-sensical, badly written, underdeveloped and frankly, embarrassing.

A film glamorising what, personally, I feel to be the Achilles heel of Britian, inner city gang culture. Absolutely no message here, no redeeming aspects of any of the thugs depicted (and all are thugs), who are constantly unlikable. I'd like to hear an argument that the filmmaker condemns the behaviour depicted here.

I felt that the hip-hop musical numbers scattered about the story actually contributed to the mood of the film, whether this is a good thing, I'm not sure. At one point, as mentioned by another reviewer, the gang perform a rap at a bunch of civilians sitting in a fast food restaurant, the gist of it being 'You clutch your handbags because you assume we'll rob you due to us being black'... Now, I feel I must mention that this gang have pistols in their belts whilst they rap this, not to mention a bag of drug money on one of their backs.

One type of person will go to see this at the cinema. The type depicted in this disgraceful film... and those cinemas should expect trouble, especially only rated at 15.

I apologise that this isn't an in-depth review, I simply refuse to give it any more time.