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warren5.0

I've seen a fair few films in my time but hands down I've never personally related to a film more than this gem right now. Some of the conversations Tony has with his mum, I've had in real life with my mine. It's a great feeling to be represented but also makes you unequivocally uncomfortable at some of the shit the characters have to put up with.It's a sweet as fuck coming of age and reactionary portrayal of black Britons. Extremely grim but super honest documentation of youth and being caught in between two words. Honestly loved every single minute of it and the discussions of identity, police, racism and black consciousness was insightful. A product of it's time but some of the issues and arguments still ring true today. It's angry piece of filmmaking, but it's sincere.

Laurie Orla4.0

'So what's wrong with bacon and eggs, fish and chips and Gary Glitter?'- I spat out a mouthful of coffee when I heard this line. Ah, the 1970's...

williamfaeleith4.0

Historically important, as the first British Black dramatic feature-length film, this is, despite some rough and ready dialogue and some ropey acting, a very powerful, gritty drama examining the life of Tony (Herbert Norville) a British-born Black teenager in the mid-70s, struggling to fit in between two different cultures.It feels like a Black version of an Alan Clarke film and indeed many of the teenagers in this film also appeared in Clarke's 'Scum' a few years later.A very realistic portrayal of teenage life in the mid-seventies in Britain and a very rare look at it from a Black social and political perspective.As director Horace Ové said, what he was trying to do was "to portray the experience of the Windrush generation, the kids who came with them and the kids born here."A lot of things have changed since the mid-seventies, but a lot of things have stayed the same.