FILM OF THE MONTH

In the previous issue of Eleven Kings Game Magazine - EK MAG, we recommended “Montevideo, Taste of a Dream”, a Serbian movie directed by Dragan Bjelogrlić about the events leading to the participation of the Yugoslavia national football team at the first FIFA World Cup in Montevideo, Uruguay in July 1930. EK MAG team believes that you have already watched that historical movie and enjoyed.

In this issue, we recommend you to watch Purely Belter, a British comedy drama film directed by Mark Herman about two teenagers trying to get money, by any means necessary, in order to get season tickets for home games of Premier League football team Newcastle United. Sewell and Gerry, football-mad teenagers from broken families in Gateshead, break into Newcastle United’s St James’ Park stadium and steal the “sacred” turf from the penalty spot. After this success, they dream of earning money to get season tickets, with aid from their guardian angel, the Angel of the North. For the two tickets they plan to buy, they will need nearly a thousand pounds. After attempts to make money from collecting scrap and baby-sitting, they eventually graduate

to more criminal activities, including shoplifting and housebreaking. Gerry keeps the money they accumulate in a tin box at home. Sewell, who lives with his permanently befuddled grandfather, adopts a dog who follows him after wandering away from his owner, a local thug. He also dreams of Gemma, a girl who is engaged to Zak, a muscular ice-hockey player for the “Whitley Bay Warriors”. At home, Gerry lives with his sickly mother and his sister Clare who has a baby called “Sheara”. They are separated from their violent father Billy who has been abusing Gerry’s other sister Bridget, who has run away from home. When Billy finds where they live and badly beats Gerry’s mother, the family have to move to a secret location. Gerry is bribed by a social worker to attend school for two weeks after which he will get two free football tickets. At the school he is bullied by his teacher. Gerry and Sewell attempt to rob his house in revenge, but are nearly caught. When Gerry gets the tickets he is horrified to discover that they are for a Sunderland match. After failing to sell them, the two friends watch the match at the Stadium of Light. Billy finds the family’s new flat and steals all the money Gerry has accumulated. Having lost all their earnings, Sewell and Gerry decide on one last major crime - a bank robbery. The crime goes disastrously wrong and the lads end up under arrest. However, Gerry learns that Billy has been killed in a road accident. The friends are sentenced to 200 hours of community service. One old lady they work for allows them to watch Newcastle play from the balcony of her tower block, which overlooks the stadium.

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