Setting
South East London
Themes
Drugs
Violence
Icons
Drugs
Mobiles
Hoodies
Narrative
Characters
Aaron and Ed both grew up as foster kids
Chris - main bad guy - grew up round drugs, basically lived in a garage
Michelle - main girl
Kirby - Started this world
Jake - young, only just joined gang, now belongs to a collective identity
Textual Analysis
Poor kid hasn't got a hope in hell - Michelle
Negative Representation
Prostitution - Michelle funding drug habit with sex
Violence - guns, knives, fighting, Jake (15ish) beat his friend up.
Drugs - dealing, overdosing, the underworld
Positive Representation
Loyalty and friendship - Ed and Aaron
Morality - Aaron paid off Michelle's debt
Ed's inbuilt sense of right/justice - goes to save the baby, dies a hero
Ben Drew's message through the film
This world can corrupt you - people aren't born bad
It is the fault of the system - the government and its policies who don't support these people.
Adults destroy the kids future.
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