Jawbone (EOTWS)

End Of The Week Shorts #36 extract: Jawbone (2017)



Whilst Jawbone doesn't present anything particularly new or original, it takes a realist approach to the dumps-to-triumphs story, capturing highly believable characters and some genuine snapshots of life. Our protagonist is played pretty well, but Ray Winstone as the archetypal gruff, but warm-hearted, Londoner that we've all seen before steals the best scenes. Aesthetically, this is a crisp movie; it bears the realist independent style that, again, we would have all seen before, but really steps up its game in the boxing sequences where a slow shutter speed is put to great impressionistic use in conjuncture with a circulating, loose camera and some sharp-edged editing. 
All in all, this is a solid movie. It's far from a masterpiece, but it's worth the watch.

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