ATTACK THE BLOCK

'Attack the block' Youth, Stereotypes, Social Class, (2011) Director Joe Cornish

OPENING SCENE
foley - added noise (cars) (traffic)

- set at night
- graffiti (already assume whats going to happen)
camera angles - following (being watched)
- meets hoodies (gang)
- language (allow it)
'welcome to london mother fucker'
'bruv'

Characters were stereotypically introduced as 'youth' by their clothing
Black guy - ring leader (mosis) (15)
- violent
- no respect
- angry
- looking for trouble (bored)
- intimidating innocent people
- cornering
- 'their council block'
- them against the world
(said the aliens landed in the wrong place)

TOWARDS THE END
- mosis has a point to prove the world
-  gives the ring back (develops)
- saves the woman he mugged
- saves the block
(wouldnt of mugged the woman if they found out she lived on the block)
(metaphor throughout the whole film with the monsters)
- Contrast to other films like harry brown when none of them change and they all die)
- whereas attack the block has a change in the ending and is more forgiving.

In my opinion i'm not sure if i would forgive the youth towards the end however, they have developed and changed and in the end they saved their 'block' and all the peoples lives.

Utopia - The Perfect

Film theorist Richard Dyer argues that one of the functions of entertainment is utopianism:

'Entertainment offers the image of 'something better' ...the sense that things could be better ...Entertainment does not present models of utopian worlds...Rather the utopianism is contained in the feeling it embodies.

Utopian Catergories

Reality
Exhaustion
Scarcity
Dreariness
Manipulation
Isolation/fragmentation

Utopian Solution
Energy
Abundance
Intensity
Transparency
Community

Dyer argues that these catergories reflect 'temporary answers to the inadquacies of the society'.