Boost

Friendships fiercely fraternized, habitual restraint mingling with wanton risk to wildly impress and collegially incarcerate, an idea, contrasts, audacity, accolades, admonitions, contrition, relapses, there's an intelligent way to go about things in films, in films I've seen there's an intelligent way to commit crimes, exercising extreme stealth, keeping things on the down-low, but young Anthony MacDonald (Jahmil French), recently suspended from school, likes to brazenly advertise, his mild-mannered accomplice (Nabil Rajo as Hakeem Nour) unable to withstand his will, their successful colleagues having stayed in business by remaining mature and sober, as bold youthful extravagance clashes with reticent age.

Hakeem's obligations leave him isolated, exhausted.

Duties to family, co-workers, culture, and friends, excruciatingly conflict as they seek the knowledge he's acquired.

But the only way to placate them without self-destructing is to expressly keep things zipped, zigzagged.

With staggering composure.

And multilateral calm.

Repercussions abound in Darren Curtis's Boost after two adolescents screw things up for hardened car thieves.

A slight taste of the spectacle leaves them ostentatiously entwined.

Balancing the headstrong with the pensive, the excessive with the shaved, Boost interrogates responsibility while matriculating resolve.

Demonstrating a sound understanding of the youthful confines of age, it fairly investigates cultural mis/conceptions to dialectically dis/integrate cunning hardboiled c(l)ues.

If you move here I wouldn't worry so much about becoming a Canadian, about fitting in.

It's one of those things where the more you try to do it, the less integrated you become.

Unless you're filthy rich.

Before you've lived through a couple of Winters people tend to doubt you'll hang around.

And after you have they may still not be that curious.

But they like to see familiar faces.

Have brief chats once in a while.

Even pay attention sometimes.

Like moving to most countries I suppose.

With a bitterly cold Winter.

If you're active though, and join some organizations and contribute something, you'll meet people.

Just give it some time.

Be patient.

And don't stress about it.