"WHO GETS TO BE A HERO: A LOOK BACK AT "ATTACK THE BLOCK""

"They are people—not cannon fodder or back patting lessons in how deep down we’re all the same. Moses is an imposing, intimidating figure but director Joe Cornish lets the camera linger on his face and Boyega fills it with the compromises and dashed dreams to which he’s already acclimated. His gang are a delightfully maddening crew of young boys. They constantly try to demonstrate their machismo but clearly adore each other. We’re given intriguing glimpses of their home lives in a montage of them running to their various flats for weapons. The warmness of the decor is a contrast to the concrete and fluorescent lighting of the walking paths and garages. But mostly the film is a radical, bold-hearted meditation on who gets to be a hero, and the bodies we’re trained to view instinctively as threats...

in a time when a paper of record sniffs that 18-year-old Michael Brown was “no angel” as he lay dying in Ferguson there is something almost beyond words in a film that makes a character like Moses the hero. Moses is no angel either, he just saves the world."

http://www.rogerebert.com/balder-and-dash/who-gets-to-be-a-hero-a-look-back-at-attack-the-block

Warning - spoilers in the full review. Scan if you, like me, hate when you know what's going to happen.

I really need to see this movie!