Review of Sweet Sixteen (2002) by Dorian G — 23 Aug 2007

I personally found this film utterly fascinating. What I liked is the way the film shows and displays reality, dra matic no less, but that's cause the boy's life is filled with drama and despair.

Melodrama in a film like this is not menat to be sensational, but it comes out because of the situation, it sprouts out and so we see it but actually it's not melodrama in genre, but in its essence, if we're to take a Jacques Tati film, it is comedic, the person is comical and the film is imbued with it, but here, the person is a person, a suffering working class person who turns the other cheek to make some cash, I think the criticism, therefore, to say this film suffers from melodrama, it's the actions that are real and we asuume as such it's melodrama, but it's not purposefully led that way and that's what I love about it, the idea of being a voyeur into a man's life, a life which some experience and most don't, and Ken Loach made it a very gripping watch indeed.