George Amponsah’s film,which looks at the aftermath of the 2011 riots and Mark Duggan’s killing, presents more than hyper-masculine cutouts“A riot is the language of the unheard”: this forms the epigraph, and borrowed from Martin Luther King,to George Amponsah’s documentary The tough cease, on the aftermath of the killing of Mark Duggan by an armed police officer in 2011. The opening credits fade, and the audience is tossed into a familiar landscape: the police drama. This is a world for which we have an insatiable (not capable of being fully satisfied) appetite. smart endings provided in programmes such as CSI express belief in a just society. Wrongs are righted and the guilty,invariably, pay. Related: The man accused of starting the 2011 riots – and what he did next Related: Oliver Letwin blocked encourage for black youth after 1985 riots Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com