Nurse.Fighter.Boy.
Nurse.Fighter.Boy. Three words separated by periods that quickly identify the characters involved in this tender drama. Clark Johnson is Silence a has been fighter that never was with a cool name, reduced to bare knuckle brawling at illegal street fights. While getting patched up after one such brawl he meets Jude (Karen LeBlanc) a Jamaican nurse with a matronly radiance and a killer secret. She’s the single parent of Ciel (Daniel J. Gordon) and they rent a dingy Toronto inner city house with a Narnia-like closet. Ciel is an early teen with whom she has an almost mother/daughter relationship exacerbated by Ceil’s androgynous appearance. Inside however he’s all man with a talent for voodoo which works well on Silence but fails him when it comes to the one he loves the most. Toronto’s Charles Officer who wrote and directed the film is ingenious with his cinematic character and plot development. That along with fine performances makes Nurse.Fighter.Boy. One.Interesting.Film