Representation In Kidulthood
Representation of teenagers in Kidulthood (movie)
I am going to be analysing the representation of teenagers in the movie Kidulthood. The movie is about teens in an urban area of London and how their lives are; the storyline is based around a day off school because a fellow student committed suicide. From the beginning of the film we get a strong sense of how the writer wanted teenagers to be portrayed in this film. The opening scene is set in the school, with flyers being handed around about a house party. Instantly we get a sense that these teenagers are irresponsible and cannot be trusted on their own when their parents leave the house. When the school bell rings, the students are very hesitant about going back to class and seem in no hurry to do so. This shows their lack of interest in their education and future prospects.
The second scene shows two relatively normal looking girls, just standing and minding their own business which in a normal would be fine; but in this school seems to get them more negative attention from the rougher girls. They assume the normal girls are ‘cutting them evils’, this to them is enough …show more content…
The teenagers use their violence to get what they want and do not seem to know another way of going about it. The events in Kidulthood seem to focus around drinking, drug taking and promiscuous sex. This is a very typical stereotype of teenagers today as they are portrayed in the media as all being alcoholics and drug addicts and being very promiscuous. However it is a very general statement to make that all teenagers are like that, when in reality it is only a select few that give all of them a bad name. It is shown in the film because the characters are going through the time in their lives where they are experimenting and experiencing new things. They are approaching adulthood; a link to the title of the film; which means they want to act
I am going to be analysing the representation of teenagers in the movie Kidulthood. The movie is about teens in an urban area of London and how their lives are; the storyline is based around a day off school because a fellow student committed suicide. From the beginning of the film we get a strong sense of how the writer wanted teenagers to be portrayed in this film. The opening scene is set in the school, with flyers being handed around about a house party. Instantly we get a sense that these teenagers are irresponsible and cannot be trusted on their own when their parents leave the house. When the school bell rings, the students are very hesitant about going back to class and seem in no hurry to do so. This shows their lack of interest in their education and future prospects.
The second scene shows two relatively normal looking girls, just standing and minding their own business which in a normal would be fine; but in this school seems to get them more negative attention from the rougher girls. They assume the normal girls are ‘cutting them evils’, this to them is enough …show more content…
The teenagers use their violence to get what they want and do not seem to know another way of going about it. The events in Kidulthood seem to focus around drinking, drug taking and promiscuous sex. This is a very typical stereotype of teenagers today as they are portrayed in the media as all being alcoholics and drug addicts and being very promiscuous. However it is a very general statement to make that all teenagers are like that, when in reality it is only a select few that give all of them a bad name. It is shown in the film because the characters are going through the time in their lives where they are experimenting and experiencing new things. They are approaching adulthood; a link to the title of the film; which means they want to act