AHOY there Tinpotters!
Remember how Tinpot Film Club was developed to support Scunthorpe Young People’s Film Festival? Well, we decided to have a special screening the evening before the festival itself, of a film centred around being a young person, and what better film to show than Submarine?
Written and directed by Richard Ayoade (IT Crowd), starring Craig Roberts, Paddy Considine and Sally Hawkins, and with music written by Alex Turner, Submarine is a coming of age comedy that doesn’t let principles stand in the way of progress.
This event was the first ever Film Club which welcomed a substantial amount of newcomers! We were really happy to see such a good turn out in order to support the SYPFF.
The venue was decorated in the style of Hollywood’s golden era of the 1920’s. All stops were pulled in order to bring class, glamour and glitz to Scunthorpe’s young people’s event.
There is always a informal discussion after our screenings and this film brought up some interesting points, which were as follows:
- Do we suffer the same “matters of the heart” as adults? A lot of Film Club members giggled that they had felt the cringey embarrassments fairly recently.
- Oliver Tate keeping checks on his Mum and Dad, is that creepy or sweet?
- Were the issues of solidarity, loyalty and lust intended purely for the young audience to connect with? Can adults relate to those things too?
- Are we all dreamers but less likely to admit it?
Tinpot Film Club’s discussions are always fun. It’d be good to hear from some of our regulars as to how the discussions run and to try and encourage the new members to join us.
Thanks for reading, Tinpotters! See you at the next screening! 😉