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Kidulthood
Why this pick
Its raw London setting, youthful ensemble and mounting sense of danger closely echo Bullet Boy’s focus on how bravado, peer pressure and small choices ricochet through a community.
A FILM WORTH A CLOSER LOOKTHE FEATURE PRESENTATION
MOVIE2004 1h 29m GBR
IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
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Why this pick
A contemporaneous, unsparing British social drama: it similarly tracks a young parent under intense deprivation and pressure, creating moral tension from intimate domestic choices rather than crime-film spectacle.
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Ill Manors
Why this pick
Its interwoven East London stories extend Bullet Boy’s bleak, immediate view of cycles of violence and limited options, while retaining compassion for characters whose decisions cause damage beyond themselves.
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The Hard Stop
Why this pick
This documentary has the intimate, socially alert London immediacy of Bullet Boy, following friends of Mark Duggan as grief, police scrutiny and community tensions reshape their lives.
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
Upon being released from prison, Ricky (Ashley Walters (actor)) is collected by Wisdom, an eccentric and naive friend who is desperate to establish himself within their neighbourhood. Immediately after arriving back, Wisdom accidentally breaks a wing mirror off a car belonging to a local gang member. The following confrontation leads to Ricky pulling away Wisdom in an attempt to keep peace. Wisdom later returns a gun to Ricky, who stores it within his bedroom, which is shared with his younger brother Curtis who finds the weapon and hides it away for his brother himself.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Clare Perkins
Curtis Walker
Ashley Walters
Ricky