How British Social Realism Themes Are Used

Shifty - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hzfhCpzjBRI

The key theme in this film is drugs.

Here a man is taking drugs and this is really emphasised through the sound, just re ensure to the audience and add to the atmosphere. This shows how ordinary people are capable of taking drugs and really opens the audiences eyes to what occurs in our society.

Here a woman is sitting on a make shift bed that is laid out on the floor, connoting how she is working class and living in poverty. Moreover she has tools that we accossiated with drug taking ( around her arm), she looks weak and frail and brings to the audiences awareness how dangerous drugs are and the effects.

Here drugs are in a mans hand, connoting him as a drug dealer. This establishes that some people rely on drugs to bring in money to survive our society. Its very hard hitting and shows how some people are stuck in this cycle and theirs no escape.



This film portrays the theme of drugs in many ways. One of which is through the camera work. There is a close up of an drug users face. She is bruised and she looks drained and lifeless. This connotes the effects of drugs and really establishes the truths of drugs.

In my sequence I will explore the theme of drugs through establishing the location of an council estate. Then I would use simple cuts of people taking drugs and contrasting it to non drug users. For example, I will have a woman taking drugs in a messy, nasty room, while cutting to another household of a functional family having breakfast together.

The Man Inside - http://www.youtube.com/movie?v=We60sNFxnC8&feature=mv_sr

The key theme in this film is aspiration/ escape.

Here a man is in boxing training and his coach tells him to ' feel the anger' ( his anger is due to his father abusing his mother), this connotes how he has a past and has gone through something horrible and his coach asks him to use his anger, to push through and be successful. This makes the audience feel sympathetic for him because his aspires to become a boxer and escape from his past as well has his poverty/ working class lifestyle.

Here he tells his coach ' I can't fucking do it', is signifies that he can not overcome his fear of the past and its restricting him from achieving. It establishes defeat and that he can not escape.

Here is a flashback of his father telling him to watch this innocent man die - ' watch him die'. This establishes what the boy is striving to escape from and that he doesnt want to be like his father. Its very hard hitting and gritty.

This film portrays the theme of aspiartion and escape in so many ways. One of which is through editing, we are constantly shown flashbacks of his childhood, which are then followed by the current day of him boxing. This contrast keeps emphasisng what he is running away from and why he is doing it.

In my opening sequence I will explore this theme by having a girl who lives in council house with a single mother and rude/ rowdy brother ( that are involved in gangs) aspires to be a doctor ( because her dad died from a over dosage of drugs and believes if she known how to, she could of saved him), therefore she stays in school but her lifestyle makes it hard for her to escape.

My Brother The Devil - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZjXLaDbU8A

The key theme in this film is ethnicity.

Here he is with his girlfriend and he tells her he wants his brother to go to college. This shows that where they orginate from education is not at a high standard therefore immgratiting here, his little brother needs to take oppurnity with both hands be successful.

Here the older brother tells his friend he wants to do 'something different' as he looks into the sea. This connotes how he left his country to be better, not come to england be in gangs etc and hit rock bottom.

Here the older brother tells his younger brother 'this is how it starts bruv'. They are sitting on the floor and the younger brother is upset. This shows how hopeful the older brother is and he won't give up to lead a better life. This connotes how tough life must be back in their country and this is the start of a new beginning.

The film portrays immagration in many ways. One of which is through the music. Cashtastic - I will never give up is played. The lyrics consist of ' my lifes getting harder, as I get older but ima keep going until its over'. This relates to the film and the theme, connoting how they escaped the hardships of their past lifes and they will keep driving hard to reach peak success.

In my film I will explore this theme by having a homeless teenage boy from india be taken in by a white family, where he has escaped the poverty of his old life.

Sket - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HxA_YECuRDI

The key theme in this film is corruption of youth.













Here the middle girl is smoking. Smoking is bad and has bad effects like cancer. She is very young and smoking is taking her innocence as she doing things that is not for her age.

Here the black girl tells the new innocent girl in red to go ' jack the place' (to steal from the shops), here we see peer pressure into doing something bad. Stealing is breaking the law and these young girls are connoted as trouble makers, as they are doing something they should not.

Here the girl is getting touched against her own will. The boys claim she is 'tight' and that she ' aint got no choice any ways'. This shows how boys are corrupted and sexually driven. Also, they disrespect girls. This connotes how teens are ahead of their time and try to experience everything at once.

The film portays corruption of youth in many ways. One of which is through the situations that occur. The girl in the red's sister dies from being stabbed. She was innocent and know young person should be assaulted and experience such a horrible thing. Its disgusting and shocks the audience as its so in your face and real.

I would explore this theme in my film by having a two best friends and contrasting them. One of them has the perfect family, while the other has experienced sexual abuse from her father, smokes and rinks alcohol etc.

Bullet Boy - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7hWhO_rmz3I

The key theme in this film is poverty.

Here the boy is driving past blocks of flats and a really rough area. His companion driving says ' aint it good to be home blad', the boy looks in sadness at his home. This connotes how he is not happy with his way of life where it consists of troubles like gangs, crims etc. Its evident that he lives the working class lifestyle.

Here she gives her son some ' job stuff'. Its indicates that they are financially struggling and therefore need all the money they can get, to get by lifes struggles.

The film portrays poverty in many ways. One of which is through situation that the characters are in. They are stuck in the working class lifestyle. They live in an area where there is gangs, constant violence and they are just scrapping though life. They live in a small flat. They two brothers share a tiny room.

In my sequence, I would explore this theme by having a homeless man living on the streets and constantly begging for money.