{"id":40622,"date":"2015-05-13T13:42:12","date_gmt":"2015-05-13T12:42:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.influx.co.uk\/?p=40622"},"modified":"2022-06-22T17:00:26","modified_gmt":"2022-06-22T16:00:26","slug":"the-goob","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.adrianflux.co.uk\/influx\/blog\/the-goob\/","title":{"rendered":"The Goob"},"content":{"rendered":"

On May 29 The Goob is due to hit cinemas.<\/strong><\/p>\n

What is the Goob? Not sure. We haven’t seen the film yet.<\/p>\n

But director Guy Myhill has assembled a cast of little known, striking looking actors and has focussed on our beloved Norfolk flatlands and the car culture therein. It looks like the racing angle is the context for a coming-of-age tale of a young working class lad finding love, manhood and violence via the thrill of racing.<\/p>\n

There’s a welcome Irvine Welsh-like aesthetic and a couple of stupidly photogenic characters in front on the camera. Put that into context of a lot of beautifully slant-lit twilight shooting and for us the film looks like a winner \u2013 the sort of slice of culture that focusses on the concerns of the edges of England that’s rarely looked at in the cinema.<\/p>\n

And there’s banger racing too, which is a bonus.<\/p>\n

Trailer looks very interesting indeed.<\/strong><\/p>\n