Anthony

Absolutely heartbreaking. Shows the harsh reality of this world.

Such a sad story and one I hadn't remembered until seeing this superbly written drama. The pain this family endured was unimaginable and not one that any family should have to ever go through.

Moving and powerful. A must-see. An imagined life. Imagined because Antony Walker was not allowed to live this life. Brilliantly structured, scripted, directed and acted.

Deeply saddening and uncomfortable viewing.

'Anthony' details the real life racially motivated murder of Anthony Walker. As you can imagine, it all makes for extremely tough viewing, especially when you know of the incident. I do like how the film portrays events, with focus put on Walker's life as opposed to the racists.

The film tells the story in reverse, in relation to how his life could've turned out. If I'm honest, I didn't love the backwards nature of the storytelling - it breaks up what they are trying to show too much for my liking, as it feels too stop-start. With that noted, the acting and meaning of those scenes are very nicely done.

Toheeb Jimoh is superb in the lead role, top performance. Rakie Ayola (Gee) and Bobby Schofield (Mick) are very good too. It can't have been a easy one to act out, for everyone involved I imagine.

It's not an easy watch, but I'd argue it's an important one about a truly tragic and disgusting true event.

I know this is based on a real life event. But the story of Anthony's would be life is through rose tinted glasses. The acting is ok but the story is slow. If it wasn't for the fact that the murder of this poor boy actually happened the drama was like a bad episode of some medical drama like casualty / holby