Harry Brown is a 2009 film directed by Daniel Barber, it follows Harry Brown (Michael Caine) an old man that served as a marine. He lives on a council estate in London that has seen a rise in gang and youth crime, after one of her close friends is murdered Harry Brown decides to take matters into his own hands as he feels that the police are doing very little about it.
This film touches on the discourse that the youths and gangs have taken over London and that its a scary place to be out especially of a night time and to be on your own. This film was released two years before the London riots and it depicted such scene in parts of the movie suggesting that the way
youths and people in gangs are heading for is only going to turn out one way and thats uncontrollable and unruly crimes such as the riots. As for the character for Harry Brown who is an extremely elderly man taking a stance for his community is something that can be said to be something that society is taken a much harder look out now. There are many different types of support groups and community works working towards changing the way that youths behave on the streets of not only London but the whole of the United Kingdom (not to the extremes that Harry Brown does).
Tylar Gilbert
Student Number: 1310195
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