Shaun and Daz are vibrant kids, wasted by their experience of education. All they have is friendship and Shaun's first love Katy. From the moment Shaun steps into our world he is bound to lose. Labeled as a violent bully he destroys himself and Daz with him. Shaun has twelve years to reflect on an intense summer of love, sex and loyalty. But Daz's imminent death forces Shaun to confront his past.
Acting
Carlyle's twelve-year silence speaks volumes before he does.
Direction
Glenaan fractures time to mirror trauma's loop.
Writing
Daz's deathbed scenes avoid every maudlin trap.
Director
Kenneth Glenaan
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Michael Socha later starred in 'This Is England '86'—another brutal British working-class summer story. The casting gods knew.
The film's 83-minute runtime mirrors Shaun's twelve-year compressed grief: too short to process, too long to endure.
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