Thursday, 19 January 2012

ATTACK THE BLOCK (2011)

Directed: Joe Cornish

How are the main characters introduced?
How does the representation change?

  • The youths are seens as threatening to society, robbing her of her phone etc. and seen to have fear of the police showing their involvement with them.
  • Working in groups as a from of fear, int he nighttime.
  • Banadanas and hoodies, iconic elements of British youth, dark clothing to fit into their surroundings, not visible clearly to the subject, stereotypical disguise.
  • Cowardness group of men against one women, shows the impact of gender.
  • Territorial between middle and lower class.
  • Colloquial language to youth culture of that class, overdoes the language for possible comedic aspects.
  • the alien introduction, put them as being vunerable too, as Cornish goes back to the sci-fi representation of Horror, putting the real monsters back to being the fear of people.
  • These youths become the heroes as an attempt to resolve tensions between middle class and working class youth.

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