R.H.I.N.O.; Really Here in Name Only

Really Here in Name Only, a term applied to pupils who continually bunked off from school, represents life beyond the school gates, reflecting the concerns about the eventual fate of those without qualifications. Its opening sequence underlines the effects of bullying and delinquent behaviour on other pupils and the teaching staff, but its not just about the rights of the teacher, as the film is more of an exploration of how a teenager, Angie, simply fails to have a voice when she becomes enmeshed in the web of adults using their positions of power within the education system, social services and police and judiciary to direct the route that her life will take. Leland's theme of children requiring "bugger all" from the education system is reiterated here, victims of an unsympathetic system and, in Angie's case, institutional racism, the result of the muticulturalist project's inability to facilitate basic human rights and equality. Uncomfortably directed and fantastically performed, Really Here in Name Only is all told with quiet bitterness and biting understatement and like its focus stripped of identity, individuality and reduced to a state of incoherent vulnerability.