Responsible Boy

[iandc]

Watched it all the way through but nearly gave up after first 5 minutes as it was one of the BBC's "guess what they are all saying" episodes.Couldn't understand what any of the actors were saying as it was mumbled and incoherent.

[cuprabob]

Not got round to watching it yet but it was called "Responsible Child"

[Munter]

iandc said:

Watched it all the way through but nearly gave up after first 5 minutes as it was one of the BBC's "guess what they are all saying" episodes.Couldn't understand what any of the actors were saying as it was mumbled and incoherent.

No audio problems here, (well except my tinnitus but I can't blame the BBC for that).

In terms of the content it's an interesting problem. Politically it's not great raising the age as people will be up in arms about the Bulger case.
However I suspect most of these types of cases are "unfair" on the child, and not hard enough on the reason that child is the way they are.

My impression is you can do a lot more to turn around a 10yo kid who's been abused and gone on to commit murder as a natural progression of their upbringing. Than you can with say a 45yo who decides to shoot a business rival.

[mcelliott]

Watched it, thought the young actor playing Ray was outstanding, audio was fine too.

[abzmike]

It was a sobering watch, and based on a real case. Very good perfomances by all the cast.
The muted dialogue at the start was almost a metaphor for the reasons the family got into the state they did - Lack of communication, relevant social services missing the obvious signs, noone able to communicate with Ray.

[HTP99]

abzmike said:

It was a sobering watch, and based on a real case. Very good perfomances by all the cast.
The muted dialogue at the start was almost a metaphor for the reasons the family got into the state they did - Lack of communication, relevant social services missing the obvious signs, noone able to communicate with Ray.

I couldn't find a thread so started one myself, looks as though the title here is wrong, hence why I couldn't find it.

https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&...

Anyway my daughter was friends with the boy that Ray was based on, the were in the same form group at school.

By all accounts, even though he had a bit of a crap life and upbringing, he was a lovely, intelligent and polite child who never got into trouble.

A friend who worked in social services at the time dealt with him early on after the killing, she said pretty much the same and said overall it was a very sad state of affairs.

[Greshamst]

Similar subject film, but exploring later on in the ‘child sent to jail’ theme is Boy A, with Andrew Garfield in it.

Follows the release of a child killer as an adult back into society, under a new identity, trying to get through life as a free adult, having spent their formative years in prison. Never having had a girlfriend, or been to a pub, or had a job.

It’s really good

[jonwm]

HTP99 said:

abzmike said:

It was a sobering watch, and based on a real case. Very good perfomances by all the cast.
The muted dialogue at the start was almost a metaphor for the reasons the family got into the state they did - Lack of communication, relevant social services missing the obvious signs, noone able to communicate with Ray.

I couldn't find a thread so started one myself, looks as though the title here is wrong, hence why I couldn't find it.

https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&...

Anyway my daughter was friends with the boy that Ray was based on, the were in the same form group at school.

By all accounts, even though he had a bit of a crap life and upbringing, he was a lovely, intelligent and polite child who never got into trouble.

A friend who worked in social services at the time dealt with him early on after the killing, she said pretty much the same and said overall it was a very sad state of affairs.

I posted in the other thread too.

I'd like to think / hope he has some sort of a decent life now, from what I read after watching he was a good kid and just had a terrible start in life, since having kids it bothers me so much thinking of kids living in abusive families, some people just shouldn't have kids, similar to yourself we have a close friend who works in social services, he says it far more common than people appreciate sadly