Based on the true childhood story of the writer/director, Farming is about one of the thousands of Nigerian children farmed to the higher classes of white people in the UK between the 1960s and 1980s. While looking for a bright future, the young boy ends up leading a skinhead gang.
The English movie contains disturbing racial violence, persuasive language, some adult content, and epithets. The writer/director, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, gave his best to bring the truth out. The movie got produced by Andrew Levitas, Janice Williams, Michael London, and Francois Ivernel and distributed by Momentum Pictures.
The Farming movie got released on 08 September 2018 in the 43rd annual Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) and on 11 October 2019 in the United Kingdom. The cast includes fine Nigerian and British actors like Damson Idris (as Enitan), Jaime Winstone (as Lynn), Kate Beckinsale (as Ingrid Carpenter), John Dagleish (as Levi), Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje (as Femi), and more.
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Farming Movie Plot
Enitan’s parents travel to Britain for education and decide to get back to their nation after completing their studies. Soon after Enitan takes birth, his parents give him to a white family in East London temporarily and get awarded some money. Nigerian children often go abroad in search of a better life.
Issues occurred when Nigerian parents started looking for British families to keep their children at their homes. It is an informal and risky practice because we cannot assure the betterment of Nigerian children in these cases.
Enitan’s foster parents took nine more children. His foster father remains busy making a living by driving lorries. Thus, his foster mother, Ingrid Carpenter, raises him. She pretends to go with the right by saying all are the same. On the other hand, she insults him. It is how the story gets strange.
Ingrid makes Enitan shoplift, and he has to run for his life from the dogs. Similarly, his foster father makes him stand against the skinheads. His Nigerian parents return after eight years and take him to their Nigerian village. However, devastated by the dark truth, he remains silent throughout his stay with his Nigerian parents.
Failing to make him talk, Enitan’s parents send him back to his foster parents, where further challenges are waiting for him. He tries to change his color by scrubbing his face but later realizes how useless the method is.
The sixteen-year-old boy changes his life by joining the skinheads. First, they discourage and use him as a weapon. However, Enitan gets tougher with every moment and starts getting respected by the gang. Violence, fatal attacks, and insults are according to the things Akinnuoye-Agbaje had seen, heard, or gone through. One day, he even tries to commit suicide to get out of all his sorrows.
Farming Movie Ending Explained
Enitan later gets new hope through a social worker, fellow student, and teacher because he wants someone to take him out of it. After looking at Enitan’s worsening condition, his foster parents express concern to his biological parents. It is how he gets admitted to a boarding school in Surrey. Till then, his Nigeran father became a lawyer.
Enitan gets a C grade in his exams, which changes his life. A depressed boy starts believing in himself from this point. He turns from a skinhead to earning a master’s degree in law. His life takes one more turn when he gets spotted in his college and offers to do modeling. He proceeds on the path of success after shifting to Los Angeles.
It is how Enitan (Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, the real person) turns into an actor and director. He performs in movies and series like Congo, Oz, G.I., The Bourne Identity, The Mummy Returns, Lost, Game Of Thrones, and more.
Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje is in contact with his biological family. However, it was not easy for him to forgive them. Meanwhile, his foster parents still follow this practice. However, when they heard about Adewale making a film about his life, they asked him to reveal the truth.
Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje knows that the movie has not brought a significant change, and the same things keep taking place in other countries, such as the US and France. He wants the government to have the right attitude and spread it to the people.
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