Fast Girls

Today we started watching the film "Fast Girls" Fast Girls is a 2011 British drama film directed by Regan Hall and written by Jay Basu, Noel Clarke and Roy Williams. The film follows the story of two women as they become professional sprinters and join the British relay team for a World Championship event.


The film aims to portray the difference in back grounds from London. The character Shania being from the poorer areas of London with troubled family backgrounds and Lisa being from a posh area in London having all her privileges that comes with money.


Theories such as Acland and Gramsci can be linked to the film as they both talk about how the youth is pictured being very rebellious and aggressive and quick to act rather than thinking about it. The film shows both Shania and Lisa arguing for the majority of the film and having 'teenage fallouts', however at the end we see a redemption of feelings between them as they seem to forgive each other and go on to win the big race. This showed the bit of resilience and maturity that the youth is seen to not hav and as a result are seen as constantly childish and unprofessional.

My Brother the Devil

Today we finished the film 'My Brother the Devil', and we started to analyse it and look at the stereotypes and qualities of  gang life. We looked at how Rash and his brother and how they were portrayed together and what the director wanted us to see between them. The stereotypes of the youth culture in this film are of the young people being thugs/criminals as a part of their everyday life. We saw the struggle that the younger brother had of trying to keep up with his older brother and looking up to him as a role model and someone to aspire to be. The film follows both brothers and the way they choose to go about their life, whilst unknowingly affecting the other ones life.

Gang life is portrayed as something to be desired as they can grant you protection and a sense of family. However the film shows its other side with lots of violence, friends losing friends and no rules of combat, making the gang life show for what it really is, scary and unsafe, especially when young people get dragged into it.