![]() ![]() In my opinion, the score tautened one's awareness of the past that Jumah brings with him, and fed a sense of how he must be feeling into what we saw – someone being attacked might have one resonance (in, say, a film like Witness (1985)), but here we were aware (from sources such as War Witch (2012)) of the brutalizing world in which he had been forced to live. (I also heard Peter Gabriel's sort of open chords.) I swear that these do all fit together, and the unifying force is that soundtrack, which – as I put it in the Q&A – moves from disturbingly menacing to uncertain to sensual, when Jumah is asked to give his girlfriend Chloe (Rosie Day) a haircut, and back again, and which has an otherworldly quality to it : writer / director Rob Brown, who has worked with Bowen before, said that what he was after with scoring the edit was understood by Bowen, but that a sound such as that of Brian Eno and others had been mentioned. * Reaching a time (the sixteen of the title) when the future has to be considered * The love between a mother and her adoptive son * A child soldier from Congo (who, as with many who have been in conflicts, probably has something like post-traumatic stress disorder (or PTSD)) Wrongly, Sixteen (2013) felt like it might be just too many things jostling for screen-time, which usefully put one edge – as to whether the enterprise would succeed – in the way that Jumah (Roger Nsengiyumva) must feel, and which John Bowen's effective score accentuates (more on that later), for we have : * Reviewed following a screening at Bath Film Festival, 25 November to 8 December 2013 * Reviewed by anthonydavis26 9 / 10 Life after war Pressure mounts as violence forces it's way back into Jumah's life. ![]() But then Jumah witnesses a stabbing and the people involved want to make sure that he says nothing to the police about what he saw that night. Things seem to have taken a turn for the better with Jumah now he has a sweet but tentative romance blossoming with a girl at school. Jumah is about to turn 16 in two days and wants to leave his violent past behind him. SIXTEEN is an urban thriller about an African former child soldier called Jumah was brought to London by Laura, an aid worker who he now lives with. ![]()
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