The reason for this is that Mick and Emma stopped a car that was speeding which was been drove by Les. Once he was out of the car Les started spouting abuse at Mick about his girlfriend Janice who is still married to Les but have been separated for a few years. Les pushed Mick until he broke and then Mick assaulted him but to protect his job both him and Emma made statements saying that it was actually Les who assaulted Mick.
When it went to court both Mick and Emma testified according to there statements, the jury unanimously found Les guilty which let Mick of but this caused reprocutions for Emma from her husband who kicked her out of the house for her actions in court.
The second moral issue in Coronation Street at the moment is Joe carter and Karen McDonald are both plotting against Mike Baldwin. They are trying to make Mike bankrupt so that they can by his factory of which Joe is the manager and Karen is the supervisor they are both a couple and Joe is resentful of the five percent ownership mike gave him. What they are doing is they take it in turns to get mike to sign cheques to a company called artrek who sell material then supposedly deliver it but this company as been set up by Joe carter so these cheques just go into Joe’s account. At the moment it is getting a bit rocky for Joe because mike wants to do a stock check and when he does this he is going to find out that this material he has been buying for the last few months is not there he will realise what is going on. So to prevent mike from doing this Joe is planning to fake a break in to the factory
The film I am going to talk about is the film east is east I have chosen the film because of the strong religious is shown in a comical light. The general story is about a family from Pakistan in the 1960s where the family is torn apart by two worlds the strong religious society of the strong Hindu way of life and the life of the British
The main story is about the father who believes in all the traditions including the one about arranged marriages so he tries to arrange marriages for two of his sons but when they find out the are so scared of there father that they at first agree to go along with it. The siblings of the traditional Pakistan dad and the common British woman the family lives two lives except the father who sees everything in black and white and doesn’t see that is children want to live the British way.
All the family hides the fact that they are seeing English girls sneaking out and partying like any normal British teenager the mother sees this but very rarely stands up to the dad the dad still didn’t see this when the eldest son had apparently run out of his arranged marriage and starts a new life in the fashion world. The other siblings thought that they would not be put through that after the dad had had been put through such humiliation. When the two boys find out there marriages had been arranged they faced the moral decision to choose weather to stand by their religion or to live like the English.
The reason that this is a religious issue is because a religious issue is something that is breaking the persons religious beliefs, where a moral issue is an issue that is the choice between Wrights and wrong no matter what religion you are.
The conclusion to the film east is east is that the whole family defies the father including the mother after the peoples family who there were supposed to marry came to the house and clearly insulted where they lived and the way they lived so they threw them out and then after a massive argument the father backed down and realised that they didn’t want to live the way he wanted. The reason he wanted them to live this way was because he felt guilty about not living the way that his parents and the religion had set out for him and he felt like it would make it up if his offspring would live in the traditional way.
No I don’t think that TV programmes always represent religious people, as been out of touch with modern society for example Ashley the vicar from emmerdale who is quiet in touch with modern life. But I do think there is a category that society expects religious people to fall into which is old people who are very much out of touch with modern life and technology they expect religious people to be like this because most modern religious people are into everything that non religious people so we don’t see them as religious.
I do think that most religious characters in TV dramas today are outdated and very few who are actually like this in real life I say this because I don’t know anyone personally who is like Dot cotton (eastenders). Most religious people in Britain now are just like anyone who is not religious. I have considered that all of the religious people on TV that I know are out of touch but I can name plenty of religious people with light hearted views on life for example the vicar of dibley which is one of the most light hearted comedies about religion on TV.
This view may hinder peoples looking into the religious world because of the way that religious people are shown by the media
