Education (2020)
A Black boy’s journey through an ineffectual public school system reveals the racial inequities built into everyday British life. Young Kingsley Smith (Kenyah Sandy) is a spirited aspiring astronaut with a love of drawing whose life is turned upside down when he is thrust into a new school for the “educationally subnormal”—a harrowing experience that gradually awakens his mother (Sharlene Whyte) to the institutional mistreatment of the children of West Indian immigrants. Shot on Super 16 mm to evoke BBC television dramas from the 1970s, the final Small Axe film concludes the pentalogy with a hopeful vision of the power of Black-led collective action.
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It's fun, it's light, [but] it has a hard time when its tries to get heavy.
Your blood may run cold, but you now find yourself pinioned to the story.
A film of deceptively outspoken contemporary relevance, this is cinema at its most alert, alarming and alive.
Story: It's very simple but honestly that is fine.