(Guy Myhill/2015/UK)
The Goob
is 16 and lives with his mum and her bullying boyfriend Gene on a
pumpkin farm in rural Norfolk. He lacks direction and struggles to
find purpose or meaning in the hum drum comings and goings around
him. The summer season begins and an influx of migrant workers brings
life, colour and romantic adventure but this is not like most other
British coming of age dramas, the setting and pacing of plot has a
dreamlike quality to it. The Goob looks permanently dislocated and
reflects that universal teenage bewilderment at the stupidity of the
“real” world. It feels more like a cross between Midwest America
due to the car racing scenes and continental Europe with the summer
heat and grasslands than rural England. The film succeeds due not
only to perfectly capturing the sense of heat and swelter of a good
summer but also due to the intensity of performance from Sean Harris
and Liam Walpole with excellent supporting cast too. This is Myhill’s
first feature length and puts him in the one to watch category.
(3.5/5)
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