Calm and Chaos Collide in Powerful Film from Heroes Charity

BRBR’s 5th film for the charity Heroes is undoubtedly one of the most powerful in the series.

The film's power lies in the understated way indefensible facts are delivered reflecting how desensitised we have become. This film cannot leave the viewer indifferent.

The beautifully crafted, black and white film, carries a potent identity for all football fans, the narrative, a metaphorical bullet that, once  fired, does not stop until it reaches its destination.

The film and the camera follows our young female protagonist in an allegorical and symbolic role, walking with graceful calm through smoke filled scenes, in sharp contrast to the mayhem she witnesses of various uncomfortably familiar and violent scenes of male led football hooliganism, the crowds part as she walks through, eventually arriving at a pre-match stadium. Her poise throughout, one of serenity.

Underscored by a haunting, tense, almost war like, sound design, broken by the young protagonist’s voice over which gently comes in at the end of the film suggesting that rather than women learning from men’s football as is the common vernacular, men could learn from women’s “They say women’s football has a lot to learn from men’s, maybe, it should be the other way around”. The film closes on some staggering on screen statistics: MEN’S FOOTBALL: 63 high-risk matches, 1667 Reported Incidents, 766 riots. WOMEN’S FOOTBALL: 0 ALTERCATIONS.