Review of Sing Street (2016) by Orlando O — 15 May 2016

Sing Street is a comedy drama film that focuses on a group of kids getting through school and coming together and forming a band, as one is trying to impress the girl. Definitely, a coming of age idea being toyed around while having some inspirational music from the 1980s group like Duran Duran, A-Ha, The Cure, and Motorhead. It is also what makes Sing Street so great, a coming of age story and young kids making a music video for their band. I am a huge fan of the 1980s music group like I listed earlier. Director John Carney does create the most charming characters, and use them to create music that pertains to what their emotions are.

The film takes place in Dublin, 1985. A young teen Conor (Ferdia Walsh-Peelo) is being transferred to a free state school cause his parents are on a budget. His parents are also in a struggling marriage, his father Robert (Aiden Gillen) and mother Penny (Maria Doyle Kennedy) is falling apart with her having an affair. His older brother Brendan (Jack Reynor), a college drop out, missing opportunities of trying to live on his own, and tries to help Conor with the change the family is going through. Conorâ(TM)s new school and their strict rules of color-coded black shoes did not have a great start, and meeting the schools bully. Conor, notices a beautiful Raphina (Lucy Boynton), who he tries to recruit her to be a model for his band. Conor and his newly met friends Darren (Ben Carolan) and others form a band. With his brother Brendan giving advice about writing music of his own, about speaking from the heart. Director John Carney does use that idea about songs expressing and being imaginative with leading your destiny through the words of music.

John Carney sure does try to revisit the nostalgia of going through school, coming across a girl that you fall for, and trying to impress her. Sure, there is a couple of conflicts preventing Conor from reaching his goal like Raphinaâ(TM)s desire to be a model and moving to London with her boyfriend. Then, there is family drama with Conorâ(TM)s parents on the urge of getting a divorce. At his age, there must be a lot of confusion on him trying to find himself as a person with a lot of obstacles that is holding him back. Conor and his band are the only escapism that he has that gets him closer to Raphina.

The film does have a lot of fun musical queues when the kids are making there music videos with awesome songs from sing street, awkwardly funny humor, and the cast Ferdia Walsh-Peelo did great for his first performance. Every song performance is a fun journey that is inspired by the 1980s music groups. Sing Street is a brilliant great film with a charming casts, it has heart, humor, passion about music, and there is lot to love about it.