How british social realism themes are used

Racism

This is a theme which is embedded into British social realism a lot , due to the fact Britain has a big history with a lot of migration occurring especially after the world war 2.  One prime example of this would be the film based in the 1960's , which was only after the forklands war however still coming to terms with the world war 2. The racism act was towards a middle aged asian man , who was stereo typically in a cornershop which most asians are associated with even in todays day and age. The theme was put across by the dialect of the scene , when one of the skinheads said , " He's dad died for his country , what have you done ?". This goes back to the stereo typical view people had in them days that all the foreighners and the migrants were stealing the english people's jobs. Another dialect which proved to be part of the racist theme in this film was , "Paki". This creates a bad atmosphere to the adueince. It shows what the asian people had to go through in them times , which makes people feel sorry for them and they themselves become emotional.

Poverty

Film 4's ideology is in fact to show the hardship of a british life , aswell as the gritteyness of Britain itself. Therefore poverty creates this theme and it also salutes their ethos perfectly. an example of where Poverty is potraid is the film , "looking for eric". Eric himself is a postman and is shown in his uniform , this makes him look very casual and working class. Aswell as his house being very small and almost clustrophobic. It is very dirty also with things all over the place , which reduces the space even more. With the help of mise en scene; Props and costume, it identifies the status of the characters , aswell us giving us a negative representation of the whole place it self (Manchester). 

Violence/ Curroption

In the later films of british social realism , they are more based in the later generation of Britain. These stories are set mostly in the run down urban areas of britain. One thing which sums up the appearance of these characters would be a chav. Also another theme which is acted upon on in british social relaism filsm is violence. I have linked these two themes because the later films show a different dimension of violence. In a film such as "Kidulthood" it shows that violence is being potraid in an association or a gang. This is also shown in another british social realism film , "Attack the block", where they also perform violence in a group. Britain has undergone many gang violence , it has most definately become the most popular crime to be going on in Britain. British social realism films act upon the real outgoing of British society and embed it into their films , which give the audience a picture of how corrupt the younger generation and to what extent they take their corruptness and use it in violence , by killing people , severely injuring and many other obscene scenarios.

Drug Abuse

Drug abuse is a horrific image to imagine , as you see perfectly ordered people perish due to their addiction to drugs. British social realism reflects on the recurring theme of drug abuse , and it has a very negative impact on the audience. As they feel very disturbed , hhowever they also realise as to what goes on in Britain and it raises their awareness . Which defines british social realism films aim , to raise awareness of what actually goes on in Britain. One film which shows Drug abuse is the film , "shifty" , this is a film where a young man has a made a living off selling cocaine. However he is destroying families and killing people slowly by providing them the drug. It is a very moving film which shows drug abuse is a very sensitive theme and british social realism themes use it it to its extent as it shows what it does to peoples live and it shows that it does go on in a country which has achieved so much internationally.

 Sex

Sex is a very common theme which emerges within the british social realism films , it has been shown in many films in this generation as well as previous times of the birtish indurstry. People will almost get the image that sex is a thing we are addicted to. However recently there have been rather disturbing images of sex and a different presentation of it , over the recent years.  For example under age sex is being shown quite a few times , FIshtank , 4 3 2 1 a swell as the kidulthood trilogy ( kidulthood , adulthood , anuvahood). These all shows teenagers who are easily recognisable as too young for sex , however this sighting of under age sex shows that the representation of british people is negative and they are careless. These sex sighting only occure with in the poor urban areas mainly.