HARRY BROWN

THE FILM
Harry Brown is a 2009 British vigilante film directed by Daniel Barber and starring Michael Caine, Emily Mortimer, Jack O'Connell, and Liam Cunningham. The story follows Harry Brown, a widowed Royal Marines veteran, who had served in Northern Ireland during The Troubles, living on an Elephant and Castle housing estate that is rapidly descending into youth crime; Harry fights fire with fire after a friend is murdered.

MIS EN SCENE
Dark clothing, tracksuits, baseball caps Strong London accents Guns Focus upon the tunnel where you see the youths hanging around Vile language used towards authority and people older than them

REPRESENTATION
In this film, you see the youth represented as quite a violent group of people who have no consideration of the people around them and shows the way that their lives revolve mainly around drugs and crime. The council estate where the film is set reinforces this identity because its extremely rough and looks very run down and this then gives the youth that instant identity that they have been born into as being lower class and fairly poor which drags them into the world of drugs and crime.

COLLECTIVE IDENTITY
David Buckingham The identity of the youth in this film imply a wide broader collective with the people on the council estate who all act the same, dress similar and from the way they all behave, you as the audience can make the connection of where they all live and how they have all been brought up. Sheldon Stryker The consistent behaviour in the film is the violence throughout and the intimidating behaviour from the youth and this relates to the stereotypes that we have of people from a similar background and the social expectations of people from this sort of background.

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