This show is a bit of a mess really. It's a story without a clear protagonist.
To begin with it follows a really unlikeable 23 year old graffiti artist called Toby who's tag is 'I Came By'.
He acts like a disaffected teenager, vandalising rich peoples houses to some how get back at the system. He lives with his Social Worker mother who he's angry with because she won't yet give him the inheritance his father left him. Toby is an unsympathetic character who needs to grow up (and lose the annoying London/Jamaican Ali G accent while he's doing it).
After Toby breaks into a serial killer's house he's murdered, and his ashes are flushed down the toilet. At this point I was firmly on the side of the killer.
His mother picks up the role of protagonist, and begins following the serial killer (who happens to be an influential ex-judge.) Then she's killed and probably follows Toby down the toilet.
In the last 20 minutes Toby's best mate breaks into the serial killer's house and knocks the guy out, leaving him gaffa-taped for the police to arrest. He leaves the tag 'I Came By' on the wall. The arresting officer looks down at the killer smugly, but she's going to have a hard time getting a conviction because all the victims have long ago been flushed away!
There are references to immigrants and their distrust of the police, and a couple of characters who don't want to let down their hard working asian parents. Very cliched. Their connection to the story is tenuous... and seems to be trying to convey themes of how difficult it is to be a person of colour in modern Britain.
Great photography, but the story is pretty incoherent.
To begin with it follows a really unlikeable 23 year old graffiti artist called Toby who's tag is 'I Came By'.
He acts like a disaffected teenager, vandalising rich peoples houses to some how get back at the system. He lives with his Social Worker mother who he's angry with because she won't yet give him the inheritance his father left him. Toby is an unsympathetic character who needs to grow up (and lose the annoying London/Jamaican Ali G accent while he's doing it).
After Toby breaks into a serial killer's house he's murdered, and his ashes are flushed down the toilet. At this point I was firmly on the side of the killer.
His mother picks up the role of protagonist, and begins following the serial killer (who happens to be an influential ex-judge.) Then she's killed and probably follows Toby down the toilet.
In the last 20 minutes Toby's best mate breaks into the serial killer's house and knocks the guy out, leaving him gaffa-taped for the police to arrest. He leaves the tag 'I Came By' on the wall. The arresting officer looks down at the killer smugly, but she's going to have a hard time getting a conviction because all the victims have long ago been flushed away!
There are references to immigrants and their distrust of the police, and a couple of characters who don't want to let down their hard working asian parents. Very cliched. Their connection to the story is tenuous... and seems to be trying to convey themes of how difficult it is to be a person of colour in modern Britain.
Great photography, but the story is pretty incoherent.