How affective is the film Sorted on eduating youngpeople about the

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How affective is the film ‘Sorted’ on eduating young people about the

Dangers of taking the drug Ecstasy?

            The class A drug Ecstasy; this curtain drug is taken on twenty-five millon occasions a year which is half a millon a week as a result of this, there are five related Ecstasy deaths per year. I got this information from the Nicholas Saunders article. In the year of 1995 Leah Betts was one of the unfortunate ones who died by taking Ecstasy.

             Although very few people have died by takin the drug Ecstasy there are some on rare occasion who have died, for example the story of Leah Betts who died serveral hours after taking the drug Ecstasy. A while after Leah died her parents teamed up with the media and filmmakers to lunch a canpaign called ‘Sorted’. This was a canpaign tellin you about the dangers of the drug Ecstasy. They made a video, which was then sent to many schools across Englang telling the younger generations about Ecstasy.

             The video started with the famous song ‘Wonderwall’ by Oasis playing, I believe they played thi because it was Leah’s favourite song. While the song was playing everybody that played an importance in her life all said something possitive about her. They told us that Leah was a very happy, caring, loving person and then we were shown still photos of her childhood and short video clips where she looked ver happy. I believe they showed these images because this is the way they want you to remember her as but more importantly to protect her guilty side and tell us that she was just an innocent little girl. We would look at this part of the film and think that Leah was a sweet girl who wouldn’t get mixed up in drugs.

             Up to this point of the film they haven’t used the word ‘Ecstasy’ once, I think this is very irronic because this video is based on the dangers of taking the drug Ecstasy but yet they still haven’t used the word! Her friends are using the word ‘tablets’. They said that they didn’t want to drink because they knew the feeling they would get. One of her friends said

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“We paid £45 for four. We went to collect them before Leah went to work” “we took the tablets at about quarter to eight” then we see these four tablets with a dove on them being switched hands, but then quickly the scene changes to Leah’s party where it looks like a young girls party. The film carries on to tell the whole story of what happened on the day Leah died. They done a reconstruction of what happened that night and they tell us all the pain and grief they went throught that night.

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