The Hard Stop

It’s not a happy watch – but it’s an essential one if you want better to understand the city and people around you.

A toxic cloud of anger, suspicion and sadness hangs over this documentary.

Unflinching in its eschewal of objectivity, this provides a unique perspective on a notorious case, while correcting some of the impressions about urban black youth the media cravenly peddled in its aftermath.

The resulting film is an exemplar of fine balance, managing to be both a humane character study and issue-driven polemic, looking at the ongoing personal and social repercussions and contextualising the events.