The Film Boy A By Jonathan Trigell

The film Boy A is based on a book by Jonathan Trigell which is based on a true story of a three-year-old boy who is murdered by two ten-year-old boys. The story depicted in the film is about a boy, named Eric Wilson, who at a young age was convicted of murdering Angela Milton with his friend Philip Craig and is now trying to live a new life under the identity of Jack Burridge from Newton. Through a series of what appear to be flashbacks, we learn of the events that led up to Eric being convicted. We find out that he appears to have some family issues within his household. During one of the flashbacks, Eric forgets a book for class and is beat up by three boys who make fun his dirty clothes on his way home from school. Afterward, he arrives

Since Jack has been in jail for fourteen years, he has missed so much growing up and does not really know how to do certain things. For example, he and Terry are in a restaurant getting dinner talking about how things are going at his job. Jack tells him that he feels like he is getting the hang of things and he even wants to pay for the dinner. It has not been very long since Jack has been out and he’s really trying to escape from that boy that he was in his past. However, Jack does go back to his old ways one night when he is out with his co-worker Chris and some other friends. They take Jack out to have some drinks with them, now at first Jack is skeptical and calls Terry who tells him to go but just not to try keeping up his drinking with the other guys. In spite of this, Jack continues to drink with them, even taking some drugs, as the night goes on. But Jack is not in too bad of shape until some guys start fighting with Chris, to which Jack reacts by going over and kicking the guy repeatedly until the other guys pull him off. It luckily doesn’t reveal Jack’s true identity except it does bring back a part of him that he wanted to leave behind. Along fitting into society by making friends, Jack also begins to develop a relationship with Michelle. It starts off rather quickly, but they both appear very content with one another as the

First, it starts when Michelle stops coming to work and answering his phone calls. Next, his boss tells him that he is no longer needed at work. After all this, Jack starts to panic and calls Chris. Chris is quite upset and tells him he knows who he is and what he has done. Realizing that everything is coming undone, Jack furiously tries to call Terry only to get the voicemail each time. Knowing his cover has been blown, Jack believes he now only has one option left: run away. He feels as though he as no option left, wherever he goes from now on people will be looking for him. So as the movie ends, he arrives at a pier where he runs into Michelle one last time before he makes his final move. We can see Jack standing on the edge of the pier about to jump as his last voicemails to Terry and Chris are being played. All this, I firmly believe, is caused by the pressure from the media to find the Eric Wilson is now back in society. There is a constant drive to find this boy who murdered a girl so many years ago, but to Jack that boy doesn’t exist anymore. Jack isn’t that boy anymore, he’s moved past that and is now Jack Burridge. He even tells Chris in one of his last messages, that he is Jack and always has been. Whereas everyone else, because of the media, views him as the kid that was released from being in jail for murdering a young girl. Newspapers and magazines all sell