Representation of Contemporary British Gender.

Representation of Contemporary British gender. Refer to the film Fishtank.
-How is gender represented?
-Their costume > how they dress
-What is the story line/situations the characters are involved in
-Is it a positive or a negative representation

In the film Fishtank, british gender is represented in the family clearly. The family all respond to the mums boyfriend in a positive way as the two young girls have never had a father figure. He is shown always having money and buying things for the family which gives him status in the current situation of the family as they are poor which is shown in many significant ways throughout the film, for example the house that they live in is very run down and dirty however when the mums boyfriend comes over more we see the mum tidying it and keeping it  neat. This goes back to the idea of how women should keep the house hold tidy like in the film Alfie.
Men are also shown to be in control when Mia is shown trying to steal a horse but three boys catch her in the act and take all her belongings and push and shove her around.
Women are seen to be sex objects in the film as all the girls seen in the film are either not fully clothed or are being intimate with the men in it.

The women in Fishtank dress very provocatively apart from Mia who always wears long tracksuits and baggy t-shirts. Her mum is often seen in her underwear or short skirts which again shows the idea of her being a sex object.
The three traveller boys are always wearing dirty clothes which shows that they have little money.

The storyline shows how a single mum is trying to raise her two young girls but is having difficulty because of their obscene behaviour and determination not to behave. They are living in a run down part of London which only helps to get the girls into more trouble for example underage smoking and drinking. It shows how they have an absent father figure which is replaced by the mums new boyfriend which then changes the storyline into how Mia is growing up and struggling with boys and men.