The way that youths are represented
in ‘iLL manors’ are badly although its not what Ben Drew wanted he wanted it to
in fact change opinions on how youth are shown. Ben Drew in a interview said ‘if you'd had no direct contact with the kids that I'm talking about how
the hell can you judge them?’ which is a fair point people only judge them on
how the media show them to be. However the film hasn’t helped that as the audience
have got to see youths in the council estate acting rough and getting involved
in drugs and crime it really doesn’t help what he has said as there was in a
sense direct contact, and it has given people a negative view on them. ‘I felt that was
unrealistic, but it made me able to watch it, because without that the lives he
was showing were unbearable. It needed space for hopes and dreams, however
unrealistic they may be’ was one review that the scenes were just unrealistic
and unbelievable. Some people may have saw the review on the daily mail and
disliked the film due to the review as it would be unlikely that the target audience
(middle class and middle age) wouldn’t really watch the film so they would rely
on reviews in which case this is a bad review. People did really find that they took on board the preferred view that those youths are only how they are because they have been given up on and are how they are to survive drug is how they make money and they engage in violence to protect themselves and survive.'I come from quite a tough background in Liverpool and I grew up with kids who went wrong. But I always felt very strongly, even as a teenager, that you have lots of options. The option of drugs and theft and crime looks like the easy option because it puts money in your pocket and it appears to raise your status in the gang culture' this a powerful quote from Edwina Currie that shows that she can relate to the film as some people have lived that life or seen it so they know what that is like and understand the film due to those reasons. I think it comes down to personal experiences such as if they grew up in that area you would understand it if you are a middle class middle age people you would just see them as thugs and violent. Some teens either dislike the film as it shows teens to be easily led to trouble and just thugs or agree that it is a way to survive.
You put forward some relevant thoughts and opinions Nicole although your writing needs to be considered a little more carefully in order to improve its coherence and quality.
ReplyDeleteIf you are referencing a quotation please make sure that you state clearly who the quotation is from.
I think you have misunderstood Edwina Currie's observations about young people growing up in deprived neighbourhoods. I think she is saying that young people do have a choice and can decide not to become involved in deviant behaviour. I think that she is inferring that, if she were Jake for example, she would not have made the same choices that he did.
This is the opposite to Drew's opinions about and representations of young people in the film. He is suggesting that they can only survive by behaving in what the rest of society would see as a deviant way. His thoughts are that what is socially acceptable to other elements of society (compliance with the law, manners, politeness, good behaviour) do not apply in those areas such as Forest Gate which most of society would rather not think about.