Kidulthood Essay

Kidulthood Essay.

Kidulthood is a realist drama set in West London, made in 2006. It shows stereotypes of teenagers and gender. Stand By Me is a film about four young teens going on a adventure to find a dead body. This film was made in 1986 but was based in 1959. The four boys live in a small town in America. The youth and gender representation of kidulthood is that it represents girls as sex toys and that they need the opposite sex. A character who shows this is Becky (Alisa’s best friend).

She always sells her body to men so that she can get stuff which shows that women are born to do these stuff.

For instance, she gives an older man a blowjob for drugs in the film. This evidence also shows that she is a sex toy for men. In conclusion, Becky represents her gender as being lower than men because of her actions. Sam is the main antagonist in the film.

He is represented as someone everyone fears inside the school, and he always goes for someone less dominant. He represents his youth by showing that teenagers are bad citizens in their area and that people are not safe around them.

My evidence is that he led to two murders in the film; one was Katie because of his demeanour towards her which led her to suicide and at the end of the film he hits Trife in the belly with a baseball bat. He represents his gender as boys being stronger and more dominant than girls because he threatened his girlfriend with a baseball bat and pulled Alisa’s her towards the end of the film. Overall he represents his youth and gender as boys’ nature is to be violent and have a rough demeanour toward girls and other people in his community.

Jay is part of Trife’s crew, and he often uses women in the film. Jay acts big during the film but is often described as all talk and no actions. This is shown in the film when he kisses Sam’s girlfriend, and he tells her he is not scared of Sam. But when Sam confronts him, he lets him take his Gameboy. Jay represents his youth as teenagers have early sex with each other and this is shown when he tries to seduce Claire at Sam’s house. Also, he and his crew pushed Sam’s mum on the floor which shows that most teenagers don’t have respect for people.

Also, he represents his gender throughout the film by using women showing that boys can treat women however they like without their opinion. In conclusion, Jay represents his youth and gender by showing that teenagers lack respect and boys can do whatever they want with girls. Chris from Stand by me is from a family of criminals and alcoholics, and most people stereotype him due to his background. He represents his youth as twelve years old boy who smokes and uses a gun, also, he uses foul language most of the time throughout the film.

My evidence is that at the beginning of the film he and teddy smoke in the tree house at a young age, and he steals a gun from his dad. Also, he swore at one of the characters at the film’s end. In conclusion, Chris represents his youth as young people always being a bad influence and most youth are always doing these activities no matter their age. Maybe the fact that Chris was bought up in a criminal family could suggest his actions outside which could infer that the representation of youth depends on their surroundings.

Also the fact that in Stand By Me they are going on a adventure to find a dead body indicates that they are clueless to be very excited and interested in a dead body, it also shows their innocence for the fact that they live in a small town where nothing really happens. In the kidulthood poster, we see Sam with a baseball bat and standing up, showing that he is one of the main villains of film because his position in the poster is more apart from the other characters, suggesting that everybody is scared of him and the baseball bat shows it.

But in Stand By Me the prop is the gun held by Gordie. Still, it does not show danger because he is wearing a cap and a backpack that could indicate that this was used for self defence, rather than the baseball bat in the Kidulthood poster because Sam is wearing a hoodie and his facial expression shows he is proud to have this baseball bat in his hand or in another hand to show this prop was made to harm people. We don’t get the impression that the gun in Stand By Me was made to harm because the quotes on top of the poster show their childhood and what they do in life, which is talking about sweets and life.

But it could also represent that they act much younger than their age to be talking about is childish. Furthermore, there was no girls in the film Stand By Me, which could highlight that the female gender are much more responsible, mature and better gender than them because they would not get involved in dangerous activities like the four boys got into to. Becky however shows the total opposite of what Stand By Me infers, she represents her gender as male being the dominant sex because she used a man to get money.

As you can notice in the Kidulthood poster that the characters have no emotions on their faces and the mid shot of the picture shows more of the background which is dark to emphasise that London is not a place you would want to stay in whereas the Stand By Me background is more bright and one of the characters are smiling. The position of Trife and Alisa show a more of a husband and wife pose to indicate their role during the film.

Kidulthood Essay

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