YOUNG SOULS (2011) is a Short Film by the Photographer and Film Maker Dean Chalkley (nitzerdc). By trying to show that homosexuality in the black british community is opposed more than in the white, I feel is absolute nonsense. The latest Tweets from Young Souls (YOUNGSOULS). Also another sex scene featuring Sophie Okenedo and Valentine Nonyela, was not handled well at all, and was certainly not as explicit as the previous gay sex scenes which says a lot about it's director. They would have considered a lot of Punks to be similar to the skinheads which carried out a lot of racist attacks at that time. Blacks mixing with Punks? I'm no sure about that. For example, hardly any of the black male actors sported an afro hairstyle or wore flares, which would have been as common as a rainy day in London during 1977. But at least a good attempt should be made to get the basics right. Working to a theme based around Religion with art, fashion and culture title 125.

I understand that no film can be 100% accurate when depicting an era or events around it, and that it should be entertaining to the viewer. YOUNG SOULS by Dean Chalkley touches on the culture of Northern Soul. And when one character deceides to carry out his own murder investigation, I found it laughable.

But this was not the case, and these scenes appeared to have been either badly written, or edited. There were a few moments where the protagonists had brushes with the law, and I thought at last this film was going somewhere and would depict the racism of the justice system accurately. Instead, I had to sit through a convoluted sub-plot featuring a murder mystery which appeared all of a sudden during the movie, a very gratuitous gay sex scene, and generally bad acting and direction. But this only took up a fraction of film time. It's title and advertising gave me the impression that it would be about the black DJ sound systems and soul scene which was at it's height in England during the late '70s and early '80s. I saw this film shortly after it's release, and felt quite cheated.

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