WHO SHOT PATAKANGO? is an unceasingly cheery backward glance at life in a racially mixed 1950s high school. Bittersweet and episodic, the film's loose-knit narrative structure seems appropriate since this is the dreamchild of a husband and wife team of documentarians. Unfortunately, the
filmmakers never piece together all their teen trials into a cohesive entity.
The title derives from an incident in which the shooting of a teenager suggests racial tensions to the media and neighborhood cops. (In reality, the nitwit shot himself while making a zip gun.) It is this film's interesting premise that Black and white students at Alexander Hamilton High School
got alo...
Released:
1992
Rated:
R
Length:
104 mins