Filmreihe “Wohnen in der Krise/Kämpfe für Wohnraum”
Film series “Housing in crisis, struggle for housing”

Mo. 25.01.2016, 20:00h, Attack the Block, 2011, 88min, Joe Cornish
Englisch mit englischen Untertiteln / English with english subtitles

This resembles a bad sci-fi movie … local people invaded by aliens …
You are left with no choice but to leave.

Monsters, race, and rewriting South London’s outer spaces
by Lorrie Palmer partly taken from ejumpcut.org

The thematic and visual center of Attack the Block is the looming monolithic Wyndham Tower, dotted with blazing exterior lights and dark windows, shot with slow tilts on an extreme low angle to suggest a slate-grey spaceship parked in the wilds of South London. The survival traditions of science fiction—a scrappy band of former enemies works together, a besieged stronghold becomes a living character, and anti-heroes find redemption—frame Cornish’s cinematic city in microcosm. Set on Bonfire Night[5] in the capital, the film maintains its focus on the five young muggers who confront recently-graduated nursing student, Sam (Jodie Whittaker), outside the tower block where they live. The camera stays with them throughout, as they lead it (and us) into the depths of their urban turf. They stand in contrast to, on the one hand, the genuine gangsta hardcase, Hi-Hatz (Jumayne Hunter), whose relatively small-time drug operation nevertheless dominates the community. On the other side, they confront the police, who are predisposed to perceive the poor, the working class, and people of color—particularly teenagers—as disproportionally disruptive.

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