Boy A is a movie about the struggles of a boy to put his life back together and find stability after being incarcerated.
Eric Wilson (played by Alfie Owen) befriends Phillip Craig (Taylor Doherty), when he rescues Wilson from some bullies. Craig gets into an argument with a girl in a park, draws a box cutter and starts to slash the girl with it. He then grabs the girl and drags her down under a bridge over a small creek bank. Craig drops the box cutter; Wilson picks it up, and follows them under the bridge. The girl is killed; the movie does not show who kills her. After being released from prison, Wilson begins life again as Jack Burridge (Andrew Garfield). The question is, whether or not his old life will catch up with this new life.
The best part of this movie was the character of Eric/Jack. I liked the way he was written. He seems like a monster, but is really a boy struggling to find himself and he uses his alternate identity to try and start life over.
My least favorite part of this film was the cinematography. The third-person, semi-omniscient angles the director used just seemed to be too plain for a film as serious as this one. It caused the movie to lag a bit, and I felt like I was seeing the same thing repeatedly.
I would recommend this film to anyone who likes stories of reinvention or anyone who enjoys a protagonist with a dark secret.
Andrew Randall
Boy A
Boy A is a movie about the struggles of a boy to put his life back together and find stability after being incarcerated.
Eric Wilson (played by Alfie Owen) befriends Phillip Craig (Taylor Doherty), when he rescues Wilson from some bullies. Craig gets into an argument with a girl in a park, draws a box cutter and starts to slash the girl with it. He then grabs the girl and drags her down under a bridge over a small creek bank. Craig drops the box cutter; Wilson picks it up, and follows them under the bridge. The girl is killed; the movie does not show who kills her. After being released from prison, Wilson begins life again as Jack Burridge (Andrew Garfield). The question is, whether or not his old life will catch up with this new life.
The best part of this movie was the character of Eric/Jack. I liked the way he was written. He seems like a monster, but is really a boy struggling to find himself and he uses his alternate identity to try and start life over.
My least favorite part of this film was the cinematography. The third-person, semi-omniscient angles the director used just seemed to be too plain for a film as serious as this one. It caused the movie to lag a bit, and I felt like I was seeing the same thing repeatedly.
I would recommend this film to anyone who likes stories of reinvention or anyone who enjoys a protagonist with a dark secret.
