Are British Kids really this violent?
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james-337 — 13 years ago(August 22, 2012 01:47 AM)
The fact we police without weapons is a point of pride. We don't need guns to do our jobs. The fact the police in most countries feel they do and still mostly have higher crime rates than the UK shows just how poor they are at it. Police routinely carrying guns = failed policing.
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jurassicmarc — 15 years ago(January 16, 2011 08:48 PM)
NO, its fiction, and lazy fiction at that. If you watch movies like Harry Brown and Eden Lake please people take into consideration they are films, over sensationalized and created for our entertainment.
British society has its violent elements but its not as rife as The Daily Mail would like you to believe.
"Its just a ride" -
spam-1164 — 15 years ago(January 21, 2011 05:08 AM)
This, and other, films centred around these hoodies aren't meant to portray the normal everyday youth you might encounter wandering through any part of Britain. They take the handful that represent the peak of these violent anti-authoritarian wannabe revolutionaries and extrapolate what would happen if they made the move from loitering and occasional murder to organised terror. There are some horribly violent hoodies out there (and they all exhibit the same fervour for up close physical violence) and, for them, this move isn't an enormous leap. That's not to say the majority are even close to that point though, and the films never claim that they are. What makes it interesting is that these few could be, given more time or a particular series of events in their childhood.
I find it strange that so many foreigners, particularly Americans it seems, assume that these films represent the majority when it comes to British youth. There are an immense number of slasher films put out by Hollywood, but for some reason these same people don't assume that the majority of Americans are serial killers. It's a very odd extrapolation to make. -
NoahDean23 — 14 years ago(March 03, 2012 04:17 PM)
No English youth are not that bad. As said before we aren't all ninjas like the 'hoodies' in this film. Yes some kids in school are disrespectful to teacher and the police and there are gangs but again I dont think British youth are as bad as youth in other countries.
Oh and speaking of the police. Usually the only weapons the police have are batons and pepper spray stuff. Last time I checked they were debating whether to use tazers. Only specialist units like Armed Police Unit use guns. They are not universally used throughout the service. Hench whey the police woman didnt just shoot the 'hoodie' in the film when he went to attack her. -
In_Celluloid_We_Trust — 13 years ago(August 20, 2012 03:05 PM)
Well, not as violent as say Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold or these guys:
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Bartholmumet — 13 years ago(October 04, 2012 02:13 PM)
"I mean there's so many british movies that portray them as hoodlums and evil "
Not nearly as many as movies that portray Americans as werewolves and vampires.
So by your reasoning do you also wonder if Americans are all werewolves and vampires?
There is such a word as fiction you know!Just because you're
paranoid it doesn't
mean that they're
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woodgatejack-sfr — 12 years ago(November 03, 2013 01:51 PM)
There's an element of tabloid media sensationalism about it, which is noted in this film (Anderson's paranoia about attacks), but there have been instances of horrific violence being committed by British teenagers. Even where I live, right out in the sticks, there have been occurrences where shopkeepers have been burned alive and children tortured by under-20 year olds.
Thankfully, these are still quite rare.
Also, its worth remembering that F is only a
movie
, a horror movie, and not a documentary. If visiting the UK please don't expect to be hideously murdered any more than
I
would expect to be attacked by inbred hillbillies if I was to visit the rural areas of the southern United States just because I saw it happen in Deliverance, Southern Comfort and Texas Chainsaw Massacre. -
danblukk — 10 years ago(December 02, 2015 04:06 PM)
I've lived in London all my life and yea there are plenty of hoody chav scum bags about. The Croydon riots a few years back was mainly these scum bags but no one died.
It's usually a means to an end when they start trouble not murderous rampages like this movie portrays.
Most are heavily influenced by US gangsta rap stars and they all think they are gangstas.
They always attack in gangs never ever ever by themselves, way too cowardly for that and I means gangs of like 6 or more at least.
But they have their areas they hang about in, London's a big place and it's not hard to avoid the beep parts like every US city has it's bad parts.