LIVING WITH CRIME

What social scenarios are explored within each film?
Bullet Boy: In this film, it is set in the East of London, so explores how closley related everyone in the area is related to crime and how the only way to really protect yourself is to keep your head down and own a gun.
Sweet Sixteen: The film is set in Greenock, Scotland. The film is set around Laim trying to get his mum into a safer place and away from her boyfriend and abusive Grandad. The fiml highlights how an 15 year old is forced to make choices for his mum who should be the mature one and looking after him. It also shows how it would be quite normal for drug dealings to happen as job in the area.
London To Brighton: The social sinario in this film is all about the prostitue bussines, and how the men who run this "business" have no regard for woman and see them as a way of making money and having fun. It shows how in some places in London this awful business of tretment of woman occurs. Which wouldn't happen in the normal everyday streets of the audience watching the film.

How is crime portrayed in each film?
Londton To Brighton: In this film there are many crimes being comitted. The main crimes is the prostuit businees that is run. It is illegal and can be put in prison if found. Also, about 3 murders are committed in the film making this a film all aboutn crimes committed and no one is found out or sent to jail.


In what ways are people deprived in each film?
What opportunities are available to the main characters in each of the films?
How are criminals portrayed within each of the films?
Can the protagonists (lead characters) escape from the situation they are in?
What punishments do characters receive for their crimes in each of the films?
How is violence portrayed within each of the films?
What social restrictions are evident within each of the films?
These next two headings require more thought and time!

How can the films be said to reflect aspects of contemporary society?
What links can be made between the socail situation of the film and the society in which we live?


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