Anna Medvedeva

 Social Realism movies usually represent real problems that people have at the time and focus on working class people. Some of the movies are based on real stories which help audience to have a view on the difference between people’s life from different parts of the world

 Producers usually use normal locations for instance urban arias of London  For example in “Kidulthood” movie they represent London as a main location where the main story had been represented.  The movie starts in west London’s school where they introduce the main characters to audience

 Usually main characters are from a poor family where they grew up without parents attention or love. Producers of the movies show the main character’s usual life outside for example what they do to survive, what is their job etc  In “Kidulthood” they showed different social class characters (middle class and low) they also showed their life at school, home and between friends. From the movie it is clear that people have not an easy life and that they have to be aggressive to each other so others don’t bother them.

 Kidulthood: social realism drama film  Released in UK in March 2006  Director: Menhaj Huda  Writer: Noel Clark (one of the actors)  Budget: £  Box office: £

 The film focuses on young school kids aged They showed what usually teenagers do when they are not at school or home  The movie converges on drugs, sex, alcohol and crime around teenagers.

 All characters are different from each other and have different type of life.  One of the main characters in this movie is Alisa (Red Madrell) who in her young age got pregnant from her boyfriend. During the whole movie she was with her best friend Becky (Jaime Winstone) taking drugs and trying to get rid of her baby. At the end of the movie she decided to have this baby and do not do an abortion

 Another character Becky (Jaime Winstone) is Alisa’s friend who is totally different from Alisa. She only interested in partying, sex and drugs (typical social realism film character). During the movie it is clear that she is quite jealous and very selfish girl who pretends to be a good person.

 Trife (Aml Ameen) is another positive character in this movie. He is Alisa’s ex boyfriend who thinks in an absolutely different way and not like his best friends. In the movie they show that he is trying to make something of his life by working for his uncle that is a gangster. At the end of the movie he realizes that he does not want to be in crime so he finds his ex girlfriend Alisa and decides that they should stay together.

 Released in UK 9 th January 2009  Genre: Social Realism, Drama, Romance, Thriller  Director: Danny Boyle  Budget: $15 million  Box office: $  Distributed in UK by: Pathe

 The movie is about two brothers from a poor part of India. One of the brothers decides to go on a famous TV program “Who Wants To Be A Millionaire”  while he was answering the questions on the show, he had flashbacks which were the part of the movie that show his past life.

 These two characters (Trife, from Kidulthood) and (Salim from Slumdog Millionaire) are similar because they both from poor areas and represented as bad people but at the end of the movie they turned to be exactly opposite to what they were during all film, showing that there can be good potential in all people.

 The locations where movies were filmed are quite similar. Both in these movies were shown poor neighborhoods of England and India, for example in Kidulthood they showed west part of London where the majority of the people are low class and have financial problems

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