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Originally Posted by neverending
Your review makes me want to write a story where a "bad person" is redeemed by his good actions.
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I'm not saying it's impossible - I just think that it didn't work in
Attack the Block.
Plus in the movie, they're not so much "redeeming" themselves, but "cleaning up the shit that they caused in the first place for being stupid fucks."
Ugh.
I guess what really annoys me is that the statement about pigeon-holing "bad people" ("thugs," "low-lifes," etc.) is actually a pretty important one to me. Growing up in a relatively poor city and then going to a rich WASP college where kids there would pretty easily throw out a racial epithet when it came to crimes being caused in the news, it infuriated me. I want to see kids who are type-cast as villains turn out to be heroes... But in the movie they were just 2-dimensional and unlikable.