Tuesday, 1 February 2011

How the youth (collective identity) is represented in Kidulthood?

The youth are given a negative representation in the film. They are associated with violence, crime, teenage pregnancy, drug abuse which all conform to that representation. These aspects of British youth are very exaggerated in this film as well as not being a true representation of all British youth.

Their use of language isn't proper English and includes a lot of slang which also isn't a fair representation of youth. However, the way in which they dress and their social activities would be seen as acceptable 'youth' behaviour to a degree and aspects of these two things do conform to general British youth culture of today.

All in all, we feel that the representation of British youth in the film Kidulthood is unfair and only represents   one of the images given to British youth.


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