Reality
- 1. RealityA Modern social realist British new wave film
- 2. PlotOxford, seen by the world as a place of education and the bourgeois. Although, scratch below the dreaming spires and you find the underground aspect of the famous city. Four teenagers: Tommy, Jonesy, Amy and Jen. They attend sixth form but their life is surrounded by drugs, drink and sex. A far cry from what others think of Oxford. When Tommy gets Jen pregnant after a night out, and Jonesy gets into trouble with a drug dealer, who turns out to be Amy’s dad, things get a bit out of hand for the group. Welcome to the real world.
- 3. Actors: Unknown young adults/teenagers to ensure that no expectations or judgments are made about the film due to the personality and history of the actors.Soundtrack: Classical music when focus is on oxford, underground music when focus is on the reality of the character’s lives.Mise en Scene: Oxford colleges, housing estate/Oxford back streets.
- 4. Stereotypes/Countertypes: Teenagers, Oxford Students, drug dealers. Issues: Teenage pregnancy, drugs, family, relationships, commitment.Identities portrayed: counter typical teenage life, drug culture.Iconography: dreaming spires, punting.
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