KKSS PART 7

K L raw, truthful re-telling of B Hines' gritty story of a boy's alienation and brutal school life in 1960s Yorkshire
K L transformed B Hines's gritty novel 'A Kstrel for a Knve' into a moving, searingly brutal and truthful film.

Billy Casper (Bradley) is an awkward teenager, stuck in a drab Yorkshire mining town. Home life is miserable and school almost as bad. A glimmer of hope is offered when Billy finds a baby kestrel, which soon becomes the focus of his life. The relationship is all-consuming for Billy and within it he finds a vocation, something about which he can at last be passionate and articulate.

At the centre of Loch's film is a remarkable, utterly unaffected performance from Bradley, who was at the time of filming himself a Barnsley schoolboy with no acting experience. He projects a sense of brutalized sensitivity that is given maring expression in his painfully tender nurturing of the kestrel.

Loch's cinematic style is already fully formed here, with the film's naturalistic, semi-improvisatory feel, a profoundly humanist attitude, and a pervading sense of doom leavened by flashes of wit, principally the wonderful football sequence in which PE teacher Glover fulfils his Bobby Charlton fantasy.

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[JakeTheBeck]

audio captions fail on this

[iiVegasTV]

I hate the accent ... Why do I have it ? :'(

[almanacofsleep]

@TheSoulVids I'm sure if you think hard enough you can find a way to beat up children, believe and you can achieve!

[braduz100]

i watched this in class tday, it was good

[barnsleymat]

Brand new Official KES website now online Kes-billycasper dot co dot uk

[captainbollocks]

@neil73

I wouldn't bother. They only want people who think everything is fine now and it's only in the past that school was shit. I failed by last placement because my presentation wasn't 'effortless' enough.

[Bjarku]

@TheSoulVids go back to reading the daily mail you clueless reactionary cunt.

[neil73]

@neil73 Cont...

in the schooling discipline system after I left school.

I will be reading English at University in September - I had the idea of going into teaching, but it is a thankless job. I'd sooner go back to working in a factory than teach at some godforsaken inner city comprehensive.

I admire your patience.

[neil73]

@TheSoulVids As far as I'm aware, teachers aren't even allowed to raise their voices at students thesedays, so I can understand your frustration.

I recently entered higher education as a mature student (im 37), and the others on the course are all relatively young for Access students (early 20's). They are disruptive - talking during lectures etc. It became clear to me that something changed

[TheSoulVids]

@neil73

I can see why they got pleasure from it. I teach a public school class and I always get told to f*** off and once a student actually punched me! I would give anything to teach them a lesson they'd never forget.