{"id":725522,"date":"2026-05-04T20:16:01","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T17:16:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-the-good-boy-take-one-magazine-and-film-reviews\/"},"modified":"2026-05-04T20:16:01","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T17:16:01","slug":"watch-the-good-boy-take-one-magazine-and-film-reviews","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-the-good-boy-take-one-magazine-and-film-reviews\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch The Good Boy | TAKE ONE Magazine and Film Reviews"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_84 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a2d20b71bddd\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a2d20b71bddd\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-the-good-boy-take-one-magazine-and-film-reviews\/#%E2%80%9CThe_Good_Boy_TAKE_ONE_Magazine_Watch_Online%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;The Good Boy | TAKE ONE Magazine Watch Online&#8221;<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CThe_Good_Boy_TAKE_ONE_Magazine_Watch_Online%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;The Good Boy | TAKE ONE Magazine Watch Online&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<div>\n<p><strong>THE GOOD BOY\u2019s establishing shots offer obscene proof that teenage delinquent Tommy (Anson Boon) is not, yet, a \u2018Good Boy\u2019: theft, criminal damage, fouling a public place, drunk and disorderly, possession with intent to supply and sexual activity in a public lavatory \u2013 eight offences in half as many screen minutes.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Tommy considers his city to be \u2018his\u2019. The streets need him, he says. He is King of the streets, he bellows. This perception feeds his diabolic licence to urinate in its bus stops. Tommy knocks about in this manner until middle-aged, middle-class Chris (Stephen Graham) abducts him off the same streets Tommy presumes arrogant kingship over. The abduction scene is choicely edited to obscure the struggle. Without audible screams of protest, the silence of Tommy\u2019s dis<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>earance nips at the edges of this film.<\/p>\n<p>With absurd appearance, Tommy is shaped after a rhetorical category labelled in popular discourse as \u2018working class white boys\u2019, a phrase originating from academia published during the era of New Labour multiculturalism. This label retains its initial stereotypes of hostility: a <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">social<\/a> group stuck in unending bitterness towards immigration and integration policies. However, the Department for Education-esque label has expanded to denote a segment of Brits considered \u2018left behind\u2019, disadvantaged, and academically underachieving. Nineteen-year-old Tommy, we will learn, still has to sound out words when reading.<\/p>\n<p>Director Jan Komasa\u2019s aim seems to be a commentary on troubled masculine identities within this rhetorical category. Stephen Graham\u2019s performance as patriarch to a delinquent son-figure is not the only reminder of Netflix\u2019s <em>Adolescence<\/em>. The specific economic and cultural conditions that THE GOOD BOY, set in Leeds, points to \u2013 the indices of deprivation, schooling crises, alienation \u2013 are shared in the backdrop to <em>Adolescence<\/em>\u2019s Sheffield. Indeed, Bartek Bartosik\u2019s screenplay is adapted from its original Polish setting to apply specifically to Northern England. As much as <em>Adolescence<\/em> and THE GOOD BOY tell stories of young men\u2019s relationship to violence, they also tell stories of England\u2019s North-South divide which, if <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/general\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"3\" title=\"General\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">general<\/a>isations are forgiven, imagine a countrywide pattern of skilled labour driven to London and a Northern England left behind, with low public investment and a stagnant economy. As The JAMs proclaimed in 1990, \u201cit\u2019s grim up North.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/takeonecinema.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/tgb_feat-scaled-e1777907546632.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1130\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-41473\" srcset=\"https:\/\/takeonecinema.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/tgb_feat-scaled-e1777907546632.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/takeonecinema.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/tgb_feat-scaled-e1777907546632-566x250.jpg 566w, https:\/\/takeonecinema.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/tgb_feat-scaled-e1777907546632-680x300.jpg 680w, https:\/\/takeonecinema.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/tgb_feat-scaled-e1777907546632-175x77.jpg 175w, https:\/\/takeonecinema.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/tgb_feat-scaled-e1777907546632-768x339.jpg 768w, https:\/\/takeonecinema.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/tgb_feat-scaled-e1777907546632-1536x678.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/takeonecinema.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/tgb_feat-scaled-e1777907546632-2048x904.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\"\/><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201c\u2026the relationships must feel genuinely complex for the film\u2019s ethical question to carry weight, and [Anson Boon\u2019s performance as Tommy] makes them so.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><em>Adolescence<\/em> picked up on England\u2019s growing concern for its forgotten boys, without overly pandering to viewers\u2019 desire for moral panic. THE GOOD BOY, on the other hand, addresses the same topic through a startlingly unsubtle literalisation of a philosophical question. Chris chains Tommy in his basement not to harm him, but to rehabilitate his anti-social behaviour. Any torture is in service of a higher purpose. In the ethical dilemma set out, Chris personifies a \u2018humanitarian\u2019 penal system enforcing moral re-engineering onto its captive: a man-to-man rehearsal of the state-enforced reprogramming in A CLOCKWORK ORANGE. THE GOOD BOY rehearses a well-worn dilemma of free will vs. subjugation: is it moral to force someone to do no harm? Komasa capitalises on Kubrick\u2019s recognisable iconography, using visual shorthand to land the satire of Chris\u2019 own version of the Ludovico Technique conducted through replays of Tommy\u2019s Instagram posts.<\/p>\n<p>Films pivoting around an ethical question can be difficult to watch. The SAW franchise may be responsible for the propagation of a slurry of ontological genre flicks that portray dilemma through metaphor. SAW, questioning how we take our lives for granted, used the metaphor of fatal traps which forced captives to choose between painful survival or weak surrender. THE PLATFORM, questioning the potential for an equal society under the conditions of an avaricious free market, used the metaphor of a platform of food lifted through the floors of a vertical prison. THE CIRCLE, questioning the hierarchies which we use to assign value to human lives, used the metaphor of a <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/game\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"7\" title=\"Game\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">game<\/a> show in which the contestants vote on whom to murder next. Films of this type risk seeming smugly impressed with themselves for engagement with a philosophical question that is often heavy-handed.<\/p>\n<p>Despite its allegory that is as blatant as an audience might expect, THE GOOD BOY packs in a surprising amount of affecting moments. Chris\u2019s young son Jonathan (Kit Rakusen) knows Tommy is a captive. Worryingly tolerant, he treats Tommy as friend, brother, and sometimes pet to whom he models obedience and compliance. Tommy feels discomfort and compassion towards Jonathan, who, unfortunately, notices neither. Tommy\u2019s chains are, after all, just physical. His evolving pity for Jonathan does essential work: the relationships must feel genuinely complex for the film\u2019s ethical question to carry weight, and Boon\u2019s performance makes them so.  <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/takeonecinema.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/tbg_2-scaled-e1777907574648.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"973\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-41475\" srcset=\"https:\/\/takeonecinema.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/tbg_2-scaled-e1777907574648.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/takeonecinema.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/tbg_2-scaled-e1777907574648-658x250.jpg 658w, https:\/\/takeonecinema.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/tbg_2-scaled-e1777907574648-680x258.jpg 680w, https:\/\/takeonecinema.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/tbg_2-scaled-e1777907574648-175x67.jpg 175w, https:\/\/takeonecinema.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/tbg_2-scaled-e1777907574648-768x292.jpg 768w, https:\/\/takeonecinema.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/tbg_2-scaled-e1777907574648-1536x584.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/takeonecinema.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/tbg_2-scaled-e1777907574648-2048x778.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\"\/><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cTHE GOOD BOY\u2019s final minutes shift the angle on the question of free will. Instead, we are asked: can punishment ever be justified without certainty of the criminal\u2019s free will?\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>THE GOOD BOY\u2019s final minutes shift the angle on the question of free will. Instead, we are asked: can punishment ever be justified without certainty of the criminal\u2019s free will? It is the question Komasa should have been prodding throughout, as it is directly applicable to the film\u2019s Northern England setting that has thus far been primarily sidelined to a mere framing device. Can we blame England\u2019s miscreant young men for their crimes? Any punishment billed as just presupposes that harm was caused freely. But cycles of poverty and failed schooling do not produce free will. They produce, understandably, anger.<\/p>\n<p>This more interesting question, spotlighted too late, is hinted at in the film\u2019s quietest yet finest moments: Chris\u2019 wife Kathryn (Riseborough) notices Tommy squinting during \u2018movie night\u2019 and offers him glasses. Tommy\u2019s elation at the glasses\u2019 effect on his sight compacts an entire personal history into one beat: no teacher, no parent, had ever cared enough to tend to Tommy\u2019s basic needs, to see past the bravado to an underlying insecurity that likely stemmed from an early struggle with reading. So how was Tommy ever to succeed? As Tommy\u2019s captor callously remarks: \u201cIt\u2019s quite impressive, really. How you\u2019ve managed to aimlessly float through your whole life, completely unnoticed.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Suddenly, the silence of the kidnapping scene makes sense. No one who should have cared about Tommy ever did so. THE GOOD BOY finally coughs up its most horror-inducing truth: England\u2019s Good Boys can only be raised by Good Systems.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"680\" height=\"383\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/RN-AgjrWr2s?si=37X5bq93sV0qg0ae&amp;controls=0\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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