How are different aspects of British society represented in the films you have studied for this topic?

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How are different aspects of British society represented in the films you have studied for this topic?

In Brighton Rock we are shown several different types of criminal activity, firstly we are introduced to racketeering in the scene where Pinkie goes to a mans house demanding money from him in order for Pinkie to ‘protect’ him, it is shown to be a violent and very crooked crime to be entering into with Pinkie scaring the man by cutting him and also threatening to wake his wife up. The director John Boulting, also juxtaposes Pinkies gang and Colleoni’s by showing their different approaches to racketeering, Pinkie the small time gangster is shown to be very hands on whereas Colleoni simply gets someone else to do his bidding showing how Colleoni is the more experienced and more of a big-time gangster. We also get this again when we see the leaders of both gangs being contrasted with Colleoni’s being run by experience from a posh and upmarket hotel whereas as Pinkie’s is run by a juvenile delinquent in a dark and dingy basement. We see a very different version of crime being emphasised in Mona Lisa and From London to Brighton, in the films instead of being shown gang culture we are shown aspects of the sex trade with scenes like the bridge in Mona Lisa and Kelly selling herself for money in London to Brighton which help to emphasise the shocking and deplorable means that people are put through in order to make a living and survive. Also in From London to Brighton we are shown element of paedophilia with Joanna being taken advantage of which the audience how young people are vulnerable to those who wish to take advantage of them.

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We are shown another aspect of British society in Get Carter, the director Mike Hodges aims to put forward the idea that at the time the film was set there was a renewed fear about violence with the time the Kray twins being in their heyday and there being a sense of change sweeping Britain which was scaring many nationwide. Hodges portrays this by making Jack at times seem psychotic and possessed when going after his revenge in scenes like when Jack throws Brumby off the car park roof in a brutal act of hatred and passion. Another aspect ...

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