Kneecap
Kneecap
When fate brings Belfast teacher JJ into the orbit of self-confessed "low life scum" Naoise and Liam Óg, the needle drops on a hip hop act like no other. Rapping in their native Irish, they lead a movement to save their mother tongue.
Varun reviewedDecember 5, 2024
An entertaining movie that also seriously embodies the revolutionary spirit of the minority fighting against the establishment to save their culture, language and identity. There’s also arguments within the community on rap culture ruining their image, but in reality the freeing nature of hip-hop serves to escape the mental system of rigid dichotomies imposed by colonisation. There was some nice and quirky visual flair added to a lot of scenes which made the movie more stylish and humorous. The music is also pretty cool, although there were few tracks that were missing subtitles, might’ve just been a problem with my specific stream. The pacing and editing go together really well. This was just a solid movie overall that had a lot of good messages to share while embracing a fun rhythm, made me realise that this is exactly the ethos of hip-hop which the whole film steeps itself in!