Saturday 5 January 2013

This Britain season: Pressure (1975)

The 1st feature film of it's genre, directed by black brit Horace Ové.
Depicting the experience of a young 16 year old 2nd generation Black British boy.
Set in Ladbroke Grove, West London, an area with a large Caribbean population since the 1950s, Pressure explores the assimilation (or otherwise) of Caribbean people into British society
All part and parcel of my current study.
Tell you what.. I don't think it was meant to be necessarily.. but this film sure is funny in parts.

"Oh gawd!!.. after I cook all this food the boy going down di road to buy fish and chips!!.. Toe-nee.. Toe-nee.. you have money fi fish and chips?

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