![]() ![]() Oliver remains distraught about losing Jordana he is downhearted for weeks, until he sees her on the beach. The next morning, Oliver awakes to see that both his parents aren't angry with him and are reconciling. When Graham comes home, he finds Oliver but returns him home with minimal fuss. Enraged, he breaks into Graham's house, gets drunk, and commits minor acts of vandalism. ![]() Horrified, he heads home and on the way, he sees his mother with Graham and assumes the worst. While searching for his mother on the beach, he is stunned to see Jordana with another boy. Thinking that his mother and Graham are having an affair, Oliver attempts to repair his parents' relationship. Unsettled, he decides that the Jordana he loves is at risk because the emotional events surrounding her will "make her gooey in the middle." He cuts off contact with her. At an early Christmas dinner at Jordana's house, he witnesses her father break down. Oliver's relationship with Jordana grows, but he learns that her mother has a potentially fatal brain tumour. New-age guru Graham, an ex-boyfriend of his mother, Jill, has moved in next door, and his flirtations rouse Oliver's suspicions. Jordana soon becomes Oliver's girlfriend and after a couple of weeks they have sex in his bedroom whilst his parents are out.Īt home, Oliver becomes concerned about his parents. He reacts by putting Oliver in a headlock and punching him at school whilst they are surrounded by other pupils. When Jordana invites Oliver to meet secretly after school, she takes pictures of them kissing, hoping to make her ex-boyfriend jealous. Oliver Tate is an unpopular 15-year-old who is infatuated with classmate Jordana. It was adapted from the 2008 novel Submarine by Joe Dunthorne, and is an international co-production between the United Kingdom and the United States. This, his first directorial feature film stands as a marker for a very promising career ahead if he so chooses and you can’t help but feel that he has imbued Oliver with many incidents from his own childhood.Submarine is a 2010 coming-of-age comedy-drama film written and directed by Richard Ayoade and starring Craig Roberts, Yasmin Paige, Noah Taylor, Paddy Considine and Sally Hawkins. Not only is he a comic actor of some range, but he is apparently equally adept at writing and directing. Richard Ayoade is obviously a sickenly talented individual. It’s slightly unnerving at first, but you learn to love these moments. Submarine is happy to linger just a second longer to really immerse you in the experiences of the characters. Hollywood seems to avoid such methods and substitutes this sense of meta-narrative with camera shots that are quickly cut and demand your attention throughout. We all see our lives as films, picturing how a scene would’ve played out and creating narratives with comparison to other films. In fact whilst Considine is superb as sleazy positive reinforcement speaker Graham, this is Oliver Tate’s film, and Craig Roberts, whilst slightly odd, is an intriguing protagonist and is a far cry from the caricatured Hollywood child actors you might be used to. Unlike a lot of films, Oliver narrates the action, whilst commenting on it as if he is aware that he’s in a movie. It is part independent film, part comedy, part tragedy with some stunningly low-key performances and some beautiful shots of unappealing places. Submarine has a rather original and unique style to it. Stuck being trying to resolve both problems he struggles to remain happy as his life begins to unravel before him. Secondly, he is concerned that his parents’ relationship is falling apart due to the re-emergence of his mother’s ex-boyfriend, Graham (Paddy Considine). Firstly he has a new girlfriend, Jordana (Yasmin Paige) whom he is trying to have sex for the first time with. Oliver Tate (Craig Roberts) is a forlorn 15-year-old boy how has two problems in his life. Best known for his comedy work in TV shows like The IT Crowd, The Mighty Boosh and Garth Marenghi’s Dark Place, in 2010 he turned his hand to writing and directing in the coming-of-age drama Submarine. It was only a matter of time then before one of our brightest talents Richard Ayoade had his shot. What with Tom Hardy’s rise from obscurity to blockbuster supporting cast, not to mention Simon Pegg, Nick Frost and Edgar Wright establishing themselves in Hollywood and Joe Cornish’s sudden emergence as writer and director for a number of incredible films, it shows that there is a slew of new talent from the British Isles finally getting their shot. British talent appears to be spreading across the globe in recent years.
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