Bosco
Bosco
A story emanating from Quawntay ‘Bosco” Adams’ life who was imprisoned with 35 years sentence for trying to possess marijuana, It depicts how he gets to see his daughter with an aide of a lady he met in a lonely hearts advertisement but due to his past gets tasked with the repercussions of yore to set the record straight In the meantime, he regrets his earlier life.
Quawntay’s life inspires Nicholas Manuel Pino, Bosco (the protagonist’s nickname) as a director. He is just like any ordinary American with a confinement of an imprisoned male who is fighting tirelessly trying to escape the jail. The protagonist Quawntay (played by Aubrey Joseph in the fiction) was entrapped into something he should certainly not be doing as advised by his troublesome father Tyrese Gibson which led him to be within a penitentiary for a ridiculous length of thirty-five years.
The script which was primarily part of Quawntay Adams’ accounts, managed to come across as something educational narrating how things go inside prison and how inmates think. Despite having designed his narrative around a complex character – a wily escape artist who has evaded smaller jail facilities several times – the filmmaker completely misses the point that the character was able to use a phone line and called out to an distressed socialite housewife who as advertised in a newspaper.
Instead, Bosco Focuses on the main elements of the genre, be it a trade of goods for a piece of information, trying to understand fellow addicts, or getting detailed descriptions of how it feels to be beaten by penitentiary workers – in this case, tough guards played by Thomas Jane and Theo Rossi. Quawntay, for his part, does have a baby girl with her girflriend; however, the girlfriend is currently in such a situation that she does not want to pick up the phone from her partner who is currently imprisoned.
All he possesses is the flip picture of the scans of the baby which the guards, of course, take away as a form of psychological torture. Still, there’s no need to be apologetic for him – as he rants, he really wants to get back to them, sacrifice everything for them, including the life his dad set him on, and make sure the cycle is broken.
It is important also to note that the weak link in the acting department which is rather unfortunate is Aubrey Joseph who recently came on board and he is unable to push the story whether through his physical performance, his voice only narrative which felt much disjointed and low energy. His manner of speaking is clumsy which does not advance the cause of the text in any manner.
However, the film doesn’t allow this sort of dramatic tension to build and our expectations are often met other than the rare occasion when Quawntay finally has a chance to meet his new love interest Tammy (Nikki Blonsky) and she is not a total washout as she is quite feisty.
Actors do not tend to shy away from marking the few moments of discomfort and friction – they do appear to be able to find space for subversive unity in each other. Out of all the scenes, it is most baffling how Nicholas Manuel Pino transitions from this to a simple subplot where such a dynamic is useless and barely outlines the context. But then again, there are cutaways to Tammy’s domestic life that are contrived to the point of being unable to evoke any emotion at all.
Bosco does not forget to rush the audience through the emotions of mode Quawntay with flashbacks to moments leading him up to the time that landed him in this prison although it seems like overkill, it may very well be the case as parents Tyrese Gibson and Vivica A. Fox bring some realistic dimensions to the roles. Still, the dialogue, especially that of Quawntay’s voiceover, is unfortunately always so weak and so unoriginal.
By the time Bosco concludes, one learns that Quawntay Adams is a participant in various charity organisations and activism in order to cut down on excessively lengthy sentences which is good in its own right but here, it rather makes one feel bad for this man as a documentary could have fit him perfectly if the directors were forced to think up some interesting spins on what makes this prison break unusual. This is juvenile and really quite excruciating to watch.
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- Genre: Drama, Thriller
- Country: United States
- Director: Nicholas Manuel Pino
- Cast: Aubrey Joseph, Nikki Blonsky, John Lewis
