NS – Nicky Slimting films & purplegeko Presents
THE INTENT
Trust No One
Review by Tremayne Miller
Written and produced by Nicky Slimting Walker and Femi
Oyeniran
Directed by Femi
Oyeniran and Kalvadour
I liked the thought provoking quotes the film
carried throughout, for example ‘Without good opposition you can never
be great.’
And the most poignant and meaningful
scene in the entire film for me came when Mitch (Femi Oyeniran) asked his
daughter why she liked church so much, and she responded: “because it’s
fun and people care about you.”
In accordance with an article I read
recently on the British adventurer, writer and
television presenter, Bear Grylls, he believes that ‘religion has nothing to do with entrusting your life
to Christ;’ no, in fact, he was only too quick to point out that Jesus
Himself was “the least religious person you'll meet.”
’Bear told Relevant Magazine, “It
was no more complicated than that.” And further added that all God
asked was that we sort of open up the door to him and then he will take care of
the rest.
I
felt that Mitch’s daughter’s speech carried the same message.
‘The
Intent’ differed from ‘Brotherhood’ (the third and final instalment in The Kidulthood
Trilogy), which I had seen the week before it, in that it contained little
humour and an awful lot of gratuitous violence (too much in my opinion!!); and
quite frankly I was disturbed by some of the audience members' reactions to
it! For example, deeming it highly amusing, when a character
sustained a fatal injury to the neck, with blood gushing from the wound
at an uncontrollable rate.
The film, without a doubt is technically well put together,
however with the variety of weak story strands, the storyline-stream is not
able to flow with ease, and as a consequence of this we, the voyeur feel
absolutely no affinity with any of the characters, which numbersome as
they are hold little purpose.
Something to ask ourselves is whether another layer is added to a
Gangster film if a real life gangster is employed to star in it? And realistically,
in the case of ‘The Intent,’ whether or not the concept of The TIC Crew
transforming their lives within the space of two week is realistic? As they begin
peddling weed at a low level to carrying out armed robberies, where they able
to afford all the guns, hard drugs and girls they want.
The film was released in
cinemas on July 29th, as well as on digital and home entertainment ©Tremayne Miller
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