BSR Themes

Corruption of youth - Adulthood

At 01.08 there is a shot of two teenagers rolling a joint, lighting and smoking it openly amongst other people also the fact that weed is illegal and is able to buy weed shows their lack of respect for the law and finding a way around it. Also they are most likely under aged to be smoking.

The fact that they are doing something illegal shows their lack of respect for the law and don't care as they are doing this openly and being under aged shows that they have been exposed to it by other people who are most likely older than them, connoting the theme corruption of youth.

In my film I may decided to explore the corruption of youth in a different way, most likely more subtly than this because corruption of youth is not a major theme in British social realism, for example i may decide to use simple things where a child is exposed to explicit posters or activity or much rather have them participate in it.

Violence - The football factory

At 01.57 there is a shot of these men beating up another man on the floor, while they are stamping and kicking the man in the face he is already blooded up and they are still attacking and hurting him just as bad not leaving him alone. 

This connotes that these people are violent angry people who are most likely beating up this guy for no reason at all by football hooligans and that senseless violence is a re-occurring theme throughout British social realism themes.
I would explore this theme in different ways just because the theme of violence is quite broad as a theme an can be portrayed in various ways as long as violence is conveyed to the audience. For example I could potentially show a guy getting beaten up or someone being stabbed.

Crime - Bullet boy

At 01.05 there is a shot of a man in jail locked up in a room who is about to be let out, he is looking anxiously at the door waiting for someone to open it. He is wearing a basic set of clothes.

This connotes that the man has clearly committed a crime and has had to go to jail and not having shown the crime he committed beforehand put being in jail tells the audience he has done so. His basic set of clothes shows that he has been there a long time because if he were there say for over night he would have kept his own clothes.

In my film opening sequence I could portray this subtly like in the opening sequence or more straight forward and show that an actual crime has happened, for example someone thieving from a shop or robbing a house. 

Racism - Made in Britain

At 00.05 it shows a white man with a shaved head and tattoos as well as a swastika tattoo on his forehead openly sitting waiting to be called up for trial in court. He is wearing a plane but dirty shirt and an old jacket.

This connotes that he is racist from the the tattoo of the swastika on his head and also the fact that he is a skin head stereotypically represents him as a racist and the tattoo also means that he is openly racist as he knows everyone would be able to see it and has no problem with that.

Racism is a hard theme to portray in British social realism, but I would choose to show this in a less extreme way such as someone making a comment about another character.

 

Neglect - Ill manors

At 00.56 there is a shot of a boy being told to go sit down while his mum goes upstairs with a man to have sex, the boy is left all alone with a racist drug addict down stairs. He is left to sit in the corner of the room by himself to do nothing.

The fact that he is in a corner on a chair by himself highlights the fact that he has nobody,he is all alone even though he has his mum he is neglected by her for her own needs, again this is highlighted by the fact she leaves him with a racist man who the boy doesn't even know.

Portraying this in my production is not easy without having a child, it is the easiest of ways to show the theme of neglect and i would most likely explore it via a parent and child.