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Kidulthood – The PlotThe film opens showing a school at lunch break with children playing football, while middle class student Blake gives out invitations to a party. The scene switches to Trevor “Trife” Hector using the drill press, boring out an unseen object later found out to be converting a replica gun into a real one. Alisa comments on how she “doesn’t feel well” and thinking about not attending the party, but her promiscuous best friend Becky encourages her to go. We see Sam Peel spitting into Katie’s hair and asking her where his girlfriend Claire is, but Katie says she doesn’t know. Jay is seen kissing and fingering Claire; she asks Jay if he is scared and he replies negatively. After break, Sam and his gang encounter Trife, Moony and Jay and after insulting them and forcing them to pose for pictures, steal Jay’s sister’s Game Boy and slaps Trife. In class, Trife defends Katie from a group of girls led by Sam, beating her up. Katie ends up hanging herself and the whole year group at school are given the day off school. The film then uses the “day in the life of” device, beginning with a group of “kidults” getting the day off school after Katie’s suicide as a result of being bullied. The film then slowly builds up to the climactic house party. It revolves around three teenagers: Trevor, who is more commonly known by his street name Trife, Jay and Moonz.

PlotTrife is being tempted into the gangster lifestyle by his uncle who asks him to do illegal errands, but simultaneously Alisa is offering a chance of a better life. However, a rumour that Alisa has slept with Sam might influence this life-changing decision. Trife has to deal with the school bully, Sam, who is out for revenge after Jay steals his girlfriend Claire and his Weed, and after Trife, Jay and Moony beat Sam up in his own house during a break-in to retrieve Jay’s sister’s Game Boy. On their escape from Sam’s house, they knock Sam’s mother over by accident, which further enrages him. At the same time, Alisa has just learned that she’s pregnant, and her friend Becky wants to take her out on a drug and shopping binge. Alisa considers whether to keep the baby and wonders if Trife (who thinks it’s Sam’s baby) will help her raise their child. After Moony and Jay abandon Trife because of an argument, he goes to see his Uncle, who forces Trife to torture a man from earlier who forgot to pay him by giving him a Glasgow Smile. After seeing this Trife decides what his decision is and abandons his gangster lifestyle. The film heads toward a conclusion with Katie’s brother set on revenge for his sister’s suicide and with Sam looking for payback both head to the house party being thrown by Blake. Trife and Alisa reconcile and decide to have the baby, whilst Becky tries to hook up first with Moony and then with Jay. Sam arrives, armed with a baseball bat, and attacks Trife because of the break-in earlier in the film in Sam’s house. Trife is helped by Jay, who is also beaten. Trife is seriously injured after a straight blow to his stomach with a baseball bat. Moony steps in holding a knife, but cannot bring himself to stab Sam. Katie’s brother Lenny arrives, brandishing a pistol he procured from Trife’s uncle. He threatens Sam, who cowers and pleas for his life, but Trife prevents Sam’s murder with his final words of “He’s not worth it”. Then, as Katie’s brother is leaving, Sam insults him. Lenny fires the pistol, only to have it backfire due to a poor conversion from a replica to a real gun. Lenny and Sam flee the scene as the paramedics arrive to help Trife, Jay insults the police for not turning up sooner and Moony restrains him. But it’s too late, Trife’s injuries from the baseball bat are fatal and he dies in Alisa’s arms. The film ends with a montage of pictures of what each of the characters did afterwards.

British social realist film conventions• British actors

Locations

Overhead train stations to show the teenage transportation in London reflecting on them not having to go through barriers to pay for transportation

This is the outer streets of oxford street. This is an alley that leads out of oxford street and the mood is also set dark to reflect on the ghetto teenager look

Lighting

As you can see the mood is set to be dark and gloomy because he lighting is. And it emphasizes on the darker sides of London

Here we have the same shot only it has been reversed and it shows the back of Trevor walking into the light which reminds the viewers that he’s still a good boy as he walks into the light out of the darkness

Racism

• She’s getting picked on by a a group of foreign girls who abuse physically for being white and quiet. She then goes on to killing herself because it got too much for her too handle

Camera shots

Here we have the same shot only it has been reversed and it shows the back of Trevor walking into the light which reminds the viewers that he’s still a good boy as he walks into the light out of the darkness

Crime

Here Trevor reveals that he steals a woman's purse I order to return it to her later. Jay steals the purse causing a fight between the two friends as jay wants the credit cards and Trevor wants to give it back. There is a fight between positivity and negativity

Here Moony takes out a knife to threaten another man that they was fighting, which reflects on what teenagers do in everyday life. It is occasionally the the cowardly that carry weapons which relates to Moony’s personality

Ending • The ending of the film is very sad. The whole school are at a part and Trevor is

reunited with Alisha and finally are happy together. Sam arrives, armed with a baseball bat, and attacks Trife because of the break-in earlier in the film in Sam’s house. Trife is helped by Jay, who is also beaten. Trife is seriously injured after a straight blow to his stomach with a baseball bat. Moony steps in holding a knife, but cannot bring himself to stab Sam. Katie’s brother Lenny arrives, brandishing a pistol he procured from Trife’s uncle. He threatens Sam, who cowers and pleas for his life, but Trife prevents Sam’s murder with his final words of “He’s not worth it”. Then, as Katie’s brother is leaving, Sam insults him. Lenny fires the pistol, only to have it backfire due to a poor conversion from a replica to a real gun. Lenny and Sam flee the scene as the paramedics arrive to help Trife, Jay insults the police for not turning up sooner and Moony restrains him. But it’s too late, Trife’s injuries from the baseball bat are fatal and he dies in Alisa’s arms. The film ends with a montage of pictures of what each of the characters did afterwards