ESSAY

The main themes for Harry Brown and Quadrophenia are gangs and riots. This is a bad representation of youths.  In Harry Brown there are youths who live on a council estate and cause problems for the police by rioting and setting things a light when they come to arrest Noel. In Quadrophenia the youths also riot to the police in order to make themselves known. This isn’t a good thing and as it shows in the film it causes Jimmy to lose his job. There are also binary opposition in these films between the young and the old. In Harry Brown the binary opposition is between the youths and Harry himself due to Harrys major killing spree he goes on. In Quadrophenia the binary opposition is between the youths and their parents as well as between the youths and the police listing them as rebels. In both films the police are represented as stupid and inpatient as in both films they resort to violence in order to gain control over the youths. In Harry Brown they resort to bringing in the force with protective shields to try and get the hooligans out of the council estate which wasn’t needed. In Quadrophenia the police decide to end a strike that the youths have put up by resorting to violence as well with multiple arrests that aren’t needed. However in the film the arrests of youths gives a positive reaction from them and they turn their lives around apart from Jimmy who ends up going crazy. This shows the youths identity. Some of them react positively to punishment whereas others react badly and may lose their identity. Some of the youths identity will change because the environment around them has changed so they will adapt and behave better whereas Jimmys hasn’t and he goes crazy in the end. The Mcrobbie theory applies here. Her theory is symbolic violence which occurs against the working class. This is very noticeable in both films as the working class is a main target for the gangs.

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