Blue Story (2019)

Blue Story: Directed by Rapman. With Micheal Ward, Richie Campbell, Jo Martin, Sean Sagar. Feature adaptation of Rapman’s YouTube series about two young friends who become rivals in a street war.

“The basic story of the relationship between u0026quot;Timmyu0026quot; and u0026quot;Marcou0026quot; is interesting but becomes aggressively implausible as the film moves on; the idea that ignorance and hatred can be corrupted into rampant violence does lend it some authenticity but without any cogency. Are they really all that profoundly resentful and stupid? Any sense of community that it claims to represent comes across as shallow and temporary – the u0026quot;loyaltyu0026quot; meaningless and some sort of pointless dumb-ambition to drive so much of the attitudes. The raps have some considerable poetry to them, are really quite insightful and itu0026#39;s quite possible that this film is a true reflection of tribal attitudes and perhaps Rapman has done a wonderful job; but I just couldnu0026#39;t see past the venom of the whole thing.”