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A 21-year-old reformed gangster's devotion to his family and his future is put to the test when he is released from prison and returns to his old stomping grounds in Watts, Los Angeles.
Imperial Dreams
2014 Directed by Malik Vitthal
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funny how some people sleep on their backs, some people on their side and yall sleep on john boyega
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I'd be lucky if my directorial debut was as great as this movie.
It's a simple plot but it's acted with such great emotion and nice direction; it's the perfect mixture for impeccable storytelling.For being 21 years old, John Boyega delivers the most mature perfomance. He owned every scene and it's no surprise as to why they would cast him in the Star Wars franchise. He seriously has the acting capabilities of any experienced actor out there and in this little indie movie alone, it shows.
My personal favorite, where those scenes where Boyega's character is spending time with his son. Those scenes alone are just plain great. It's like the simplicity of the scene is directed with great…
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Boyega is as superstar and I can't wait for him to finish up on Star Wars so he can start on his Oscar warpath.
I fairly standard family drama with an impressive showing from Boyega. Probably one of the better movies Netflix has picked up, not ground breaking but worth a watch.
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Telling the story of a paroled convict that returns home in the inner city to his parentless son (his mother got locked up as well), Imperial Dreams shows the walls built around the inner city by "the system" to keep the impoverished locked inside. Broke and required to get a job to stay out of jail, he needs his driver's license. However, he does not have it and cannot get it because of backdue child support. While his baby mother did not file for it, it had been filed on her behalf. To pay-off the child support, he needs a job. He also needs a job to get an apartment because he and his son live in his…
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Star Wars 40th Anniversary Hunt
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Task 35 - A film starring John BoyegaSo the Star Wars Scavenger Hunt has begun. I'm going to save the Star Wars films themselves for the run up to Episode 8, so I'm going to tackle some of the peripheral tasks first. First up a film starring John Boyega.
Before starring in Episode 7 and after Attack the Block, John Boyega starred in Malik Vitthal's Imperial Dreams. Boyega plays 21 year old Bambi Jones, fresh out of prison and trying to keep on the right side of the law and raise his son Daytone. Unfortunately the bureaucratic system is stacked against him. He can't get a job because he doesn't have…
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You'll have seen this story told before in countless other (better) movies, but it's a decent watch and further proof as to why the world remains excited about John Boyega.
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FN2187 plays an ex-con in this lowly street movie that really suffers by coming to Netflix just after everyone has just seen the more superior Moonlight.
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This movie was great!! Bambi was trying hard to leave his life in the past which turns out to be harder than he thought and he’s struggling to find a regular job to support his kid. This movie had me in tears
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I mean there’s nothing essentially wrong with it at all, but nothing new enough that makes it exciting and really worth the watch 3.3/5
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There was definitely a couple scenes where I thought this was going to be going down the Concrete Cowboy route.
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the last 10-15 minutes of this movie is the absolute cherry on top. could genuinely sob
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This was quite good. Boyega was fantastic and I was glad it mostly avoided familiar tropes. The biggest strength, next to Boyega, would have to be how good of a job it does in showing the intersection of classism and systemic racism and how Black people are deliberately kept down by the system.
Reform won't change all of this, folks. We need more than that. But it won't be televised. -
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