Stabbed
- TV Movie
- 2007
- 25m
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Superficial but engaging overview of a growing social problem
On average about 100 people are stabbed every day in the UK. This film picks a couple of those and looks at they whys and hows of the assaults. Frank was a gangster who himself lived by the baseball bat and gun; Dave was stabbed in the neck for resisting a street robbery; Mark was walking home when a gang set upon him, stabbing him about six times; Ann lost her son when he bled to death by a cash point after being stabbed. These tell their stories while the film also explores the efforts being made by Government in policing and education.
A topical and important entry in the New Shoots season of short films and one that does the topic justice in providing food for thought and debate. The opening credits tell us that about 100 people are stabbed every day in the UK. Think about what that means in terms you understand. My entire year at school was 100 pupils and I doubt that I actually could name many more than 100 people I speak to on a weekly basis but yet this is how many get injured or killed daily or, a football stadium full every year. The stats are depressing and this film does a good job of putting a human face on it by interviewing a range of victims. We get those who lived the life, innocents who just got jumped, mothers who lost children and so on. All are concise and talk matter-of-factly about what they went through and why.
The film also interviews a couple of groups involved in education but, critically, it does not prevent nice solutions or answers to this problem. Instead what it does do is criticise the lack of meaningful action by Government to tackle this problem (although really add it to the pile of social problems that nobody seems willing or able to get a handle on). This makes the film more than the sum of its parts and it can be used well as a discussion started or awareness raising. The downside of this is that the film does feel quite short and superficial, which is the price it pays for providing an overview of the issue rather than getting right down into the detail and making a damning sort of documentary. Despite this though it is engaging and impacting in what it tries to do and deserves to be picked up on and used in schools.
A topical and important entry in the New Shoots season of short films and one that does the topic justice in providing food for thought and debate. The opening credits tell us that about 100 people are stabbed every day in the UK. Think about what that means in terms you understand. My entire year at school was 100 pupils and I doubt that I actually could name many more than 100 people I speak to on a weekly basis but yet this is how many get injured or killed daily or, a football stadium full every year. The stats are depressing and this film does a good job of putting a human face on it by interviewing a range of victims. We get those who lived the life, innocents who just got jumped, mothers who lost children and so on. All are concise and talk matter-of-factly about what they went through and why.
The film also interviews a couple of groups involved in education but, critically, it does not prevent nice solutions or answers to this problem. Instead what it does do is criticise the lack of meaningful action by Government to tackle this problem (although really add it to the pile of social problems that nobody seems willing or able to get a handle on). This makes the film more than the sum of its parts and it can be used well as a discussion started or awareness raising. The downside of this is that the film does feel quite short and superficial, which is the price it pays for providing an overview of the issue rather than getting right down into the detail and making a damning sort of documentary. Despite this though it is engaging and impacting in what it tries to do and deserves to be picked up on and used in schools.
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- bob the moo
- Jul 12, 2007
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