Am I the only one who's concerned that hoodie violence movies like this will expand the hoodie boundaries of 'acceptable' behaviour? This is on Sky right now and I bet loads of young thugs are watching thinking 'yeah that's a good idea!'
shareNo more than any other gangster film.
shareI hope you're right...all the riots recently make me worry about how much the youth today has been desensitised.
shareThose riots weren't influenced by movies, the riots were a mixture of products of their environment and opportunism at its worse.
I especially don't think this film promotes violence or gang culture. This is classed as an urban horror, in definition displaying the gang and violence negatively.
Yeah that makes sense. Thanks I actually feel better about the film coming from that perspective.
sharedisplaying the gang and violence negatively
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Good point.
shareI don't think any potential 'hoodies' are going to watch films like this thinking it's a great idea to attack a middle class couple in their home, risk being identified and on the basis that they'd kill said couple, go around leaving DNA traces throughout the place, and just generally act like brainless, clueless thugs.
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BGH, As a working class 23 year old who went to school with "hoodies" and is surrounded by them nearly all the time, I can tell that you're the one who has never met one in your life.
shareENOCH POWELL CALLED IT!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TlgZo3hqLRw&bpctr=1358733915
No, we don't need films like this. It certainly wasn't entertaining (and anyone who did find it entertaining clearly has major issues) nor was there any sort of moral or image of good overcoming evil (like in 'Death Wish'). All this film teaches us is to 'beware the black man' and that rape is something to add for a bit of thrill. And I imagine it does give thugs some ideas of how to spend their weekend.
"I always pretend to root for Gryffindors but, secretly, I love my Slytherin boys."~ Karen, W&G
Well, considering the percentage of violence that is committed by "the black man", as well as lower class people and immigrants, I think this film rightly does warn people to fear gang power and urge their MPs to pass laws to do something about it.
shareWhat a twisted understanding of reality you have.
shareyeah this had no merit whatsover... i sat watching awaiting for the moral decency sub-plot to come through, but sadly nothing but mindless violence... they even had the cheek to reference 'dead man walking' in the dvd scene in the movie... this was nothing near it...
waste of national lottery money and no wonder the uk film council is bust...
Horror movies are based on fiction but films like these are based on factual happenings and it can happen to anyone of us decent law abiding people. Gang culture fueled by drugs and unemployment. Its worrying.
shareIt might do that but then, for every thug who imitates it, there'll be someone else who resolves to treat others with respect. I find it ironic that most of the violence generated by the film Clockwork Orange was from the people who believed that they were on the side of law and order. Kubrick withdrew the film because of death threats from such upholders of decency.
I'm visiting the USA at present and have thought about crime. It's strange that gangs are dying out in New York whereas they seem to be growing in England (especially London). I feel safer in Harlem than in Hackney, which no one would have said 30 years ago. I don't understand crime.
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Dont be a scaremongering prat, Ive seen Star Wars and I have no intention of becoming a wookie.
shareYeah, before movies, the earth was the Garden of Eden.
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