Kidulthood is a British drama film about the life
of several teenagers in the West London area. It is directed by Menhaj Huda and
written by Noal Clarke, who also stars in the film. This film follows 2 days in
the life of 15 year olds from a mixed income area in West London. After one
girl had been bullied by some of her 'peers' and her father doesn't notice she
seems to have had enough of it and ended up hanging herself. The school was
then given the day off the next day to supposedly 'grieve' for the girl
although some of them show they don't have any sorrow for what happened.
Throughout the day a series of events unfold within their lives showing graphic
scenes of violence, drug taking, casual sex and organized crime also including
some other extreme activities.
Marx’s makes a good point that I wanted to start
with he believed that all cultures are produced by ‘social conditions’ and
these depend upon social class and age is also a contributor. Young people want
to be separate from there parents and be individual, if you have watched this
film you see most of the youths go out and take the day to day life on their
own, with only a few times there parents being in the scene. Life for these
lower class youths in London seems to be full of drugs, race, crime and sex. The
teenage boys are represented as violent but some males have modeled there behavior
from such films as this leading to a rise in gang culture within London,
especially within the middle and lower class society’s.
There is a lot of slang used within this film and
even walking around London you can here the youths of today using the words ‘Fam’,
‘Blud’ and many more. CAT defines language as a reflection of both a speaker or
groups need for social interaction with others and as a reflection of ‘the desire
for social approval’. (Giles,N. Coupland and J. Coupland, 1991:18). This couldn’t
be truer for this film, image one of the lads talking with a ‘posh’ accent
speaking proper English instead of interpreting it; he wouldn’t have been
accepted within the crowd and the social norm of a typical hoodie. London is
shown within this film to have these ‘hoodies’ everywhere and they get demoralized
wherever they go.
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Chloe O'Brien
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