Education
- Episode aired Dec 18, 2020
- TV-MA
- 1h 3m
IMDb RATING
7.5/10
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12 year-old Kingsley is held back by the unofficial segregation policies at his school.12 year-old Kingsley is held back by the unofficial segregation policies at his school.12 year-old Kingsley is held back by the unofficial segregation policies at his school.
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Did you know
- TriviaSteve McQueen had a vested interest in this story. He is a person with dyslexia and as consequently found himself shunted into remedial classes at school because of it.
- ConnectionsFeatures Roobarb: When the Day Wouldn't Keep Still (1974)
- SoundtracksLondon's Burning
(uncredited)
Traditional
Performed by school children
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Ending Where It Begins
Decidedly the least impressive of Steve McQueen's "Small Axe" anthology, "Education" is weepily didactic. Of course, all of the movies in the series--well, with the exception for the most part of "Lovers Rock"--are heavy on the social commentary as concerns London's citizens from the West Indies circa 1960s-1980s, and it's appropriate enough that a picture concerning education would be itself a lecture. And, naturally, many societal ills may be traced back to and perpetuate from the classroom, so it's an apt topic to end the program on. Still, this is barely more exciting than reading the pamphlet within the narrative on racial discrimination and the misnomer "special" in schooling, the reading of which is also done in the movie.
The acting and cinematography are fine enough as with the rest of "Small Axe" and McQueen's oeuvre in general, but there's not much else here beyond learning the already obvious and being coaxed to cry over a kid being illiterate. By the time the mother becomes involved in her son's education by attending the lecture within this lecture of a movie, the picture has ironically begun to lose its focus on the protagonist. I'd rather learn more, though, about Claudia Jones and Queen Amina of Zaria.
The acting and cinematography are fine enough as with the rest of "Small Axe" and McQueen's oeuvre in general, but there's not much else here beyond learning the already obvious and being coaxed to cry over a kid being illiterate. By the time the mother becomes involved in her son's education by attending the lecture within this lecture of a movie, the picture has ironically begun to lose its focus on the protagonist. I'd rather learn more, though, about Claudia Jones and Queen Amina of Zaria.
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- Cineanalyst
- Jan 15, 2021
Details
- Runtime1 hour 3 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 1.66 : 1
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