| Anno | 2007 |
| Genere | Drammatico |
| Produzione | Gran Bretagna |
| Regia di | John Crowley |
| Attori | Andrew Garfield, Peter Mullan, Siobhan Finneran, Alfie Owen, Victoria Brazier Skye Bennett. |
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Al Box Office Usa Boy A ha incassato nelle prime 4 settimane di programmazione 106 mila dollari e 13,1 mila dollari nel primo weekend.
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The ingenuous 24-year-old man-child at the center of John Crowley’s wrenching melodrama “Boy A” is a familiar movie type: a basically good person who made a tragic mistake years earlier and is handed a second chance.
Adapted from a novel by Jonathan Trigell, the movie is unambiguously enamored of Jack Burridge, né Eric Wilson (Andrew Garfield), who is re-entering society under a new name after having served 14 years in a juvenile prison in Manchester, England. Given a job and a modest one-room apartment, Jack seems ready to make a go of it. The details of his heinous crime are leaked out gradually.
Flashbacks portray Eric as the only child of troubled parents: a mother dying an excruciating death from breast cancer in an upstairs bedroom and a gruff father who broods downstairs over a bottle of whiskey. Relentlessly bullied by his peers, Eric develops a friendship with Philip Craig (Taylor Doherty), a fellow outcast with a history of sexual abuse and a streak of sociopathic rage.
The movie’s depiction of Eric, who at the time of his crime was identified as Boy A because he was under age, doesn’t jibe with its portrait of the dewy, verbally stumbling man released from juvenile prison. Shy and handsome, prone to frightening nightmares, Jack is desperately eager to put the past behind him. His emotional lifeline is his stern, kindhearted caseworker, Terry (Peter Mullan), who has a son around Jack’s age. The movie pointedly compares Terry’s alienation from his biological son with his devotion to his surrogate one.
Under no circumstances, Terry emphasizes, is Jack to reveal his former identity or to discuss his imprisonment. The only information that his new employer at the delivery company that hires him has is that he served time and paid his debt to society.
In some ways “Boy A” is a throwback to the sooty kitchen-sink realism of early-’60s British films by Tony Richardson, Lindsay Anderson and John Schlesinger, which portrayed a depressed, alienated working class teetering between rage and hopelessness in a stagnant economy.
In “Boy A,” Manchester looks much the same now as it did in movies back then. The identical brick buildings and narrow streets through which Jack furtively scuttles evoke time-honored film images of Britain’s northern industrial cities as forbidding, prisonlike environments. Although shot in color, “Boy A” leaves a black-and-white impression.
Mr. Garfield’s performance makes Jack so endearing and vulnerable that as he takes his first wobbly steps, like a baby bird shoved from its nest, your instincts are protective. When he goes out drinking with his co-workers, and one casually slips a tab of Ecstasy into his beer, you worry that disaster is imminent. Later, when he comes to the rescue of Chris (Shaun Evans), his closest friend at work, in a drunken rooftop brawl, the movie portrays his violent intervention as brave and not as a scary reversion to previous behavior.
Most important is Jack’s developing relationship with Michelle (Katie Lyons), the grounded, no-nonsense secretary at his job. Every step of that courtship, from gathering the courage to ask her out to their first kiss, is a major personal leap forward. But as Jack’s heart opens, he longs to tell Michelle about his past and clear the slate.
One day when he and Chris are driving the company van, Jack spots a car that has spun off the road into the woods and saves the life of a young girl trapped in the vehicle. He becomes a local hero. But heroes — even genuine ones — are resented. So is the media attention that heroism brings. Society doesn’t forget violent crimes, even those committed by children. As flashbacks reveal Jack’s past, “Boy A” asks us to weigh issues about forgiveness, justice and human nature.
If the movie has already made up its mind that Jack is a good guy worthy of salvation, it implies that for the majority of people some crimes are unforgivable; once a monster, always a monster. The pill we are asked to swallow is a very bitter one.
Da The New York Times 23 Luglio 2008
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Una storia che non ti può lasciare indifferente. il protagonista è Jack, un ragazzo che non riesce a liberarsi del suo triste passato e che ha come guida Terry, un uomo che ha dedicato tutta la sua vita a "salvare" la vita degli altri seminando poi solitudine nella sua ed in quella dei suoi cari ( magistrale è la metafora che vede la sua casa estremamente spoglia ).
Jack (Andrew Garfield) ha 24 anni ma è come se fosse appena nato. Non ha mai avuto una ragazza, non ha mai bevuto, non si è mai drogato, ha difficoltà a relazionarsi con gli altri, è estremamente timido e riservato. Ma Jack non è Jack, il suo nome se l'è scelto da solo, una volta uscito di prigione per aver commesso un orrendo crimine quando era ancora bambino.
jack ,un ragazzo alla soglia dei vent'anni presupponiamo,sta' per lasciare il penitenziario dopo una lunga detenzione,e facciamo la conoscenza di questo ragazzo del sue espressioni ingenue e delle sue fragilita' che fanno capolino gia' dall'inzio nell'incontro con il suo supervisor. Al ragazzo viene data una nuova identita' e una nuova vita e qui cominciamo a capire che [...] Vai alla recensione »
Il cinema britannico sempre ricco di fascino per il realismo dei personaggi,confermato da una grande interpretazione di Peter Mullan, si mostra in questo film con una pellicola più nitida e sicuramente innovativa.Terry,dopo aver seguito il percorso per riabilitare jack,si rivela un uomo fermo e che pensa a jack come ad un figlio.Jack,nome attribuitosi dopo 14 anni di carcere per aver ucciso [...] Vai alla recensione »
Drammatico del 2007 del regista irlandese John Crowley con un plot non banale ispirato alla lontana ad una storia vera e tratto da un romanzo di Jonathan Trigell. Il film, ben scritto, ben diretto, ben interpretato, è purtroppo inesorabilmente lento e finisce per annoiare nonostante tutte le buone intenzioni. Si salvano i ricordi, le parti in flashback sul passato del giovane protagonista, Andrew [...] Vai alla recensione »
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The ingenuous 24-year-old man-child at the center of John Crowley’s wrenching melodrama “Boy A” is a familiar movie type: a basically good person who made a tragic mistake years earlier and is handed a second chance. Adapted from a novel by Jonathan Trigell, the movie is unambiguously enamored of Jack Burridge, né Eric Wilson (Andrew Garfield), who is re-entering society under a new name after having [...] Vai alla recensione »
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