An Education

1.
Jenny's life was typical for a teenager living in the 60s because her parents had already planned out her future and controlled her social life. She is well spoken and her family were quite well off because her Dad was paying her school fees. Her father was the head of the household and controlled the money whereas  her mother was a typical housewife.This was a typical family unit at the time. She didn't plan to have sex before marriage and wanted to be pregnant at the age if 17. She was expected to go to a prestigious university and if not then she had no other choices.
She likes to gossip with her friends in lesson about boys and other gossip she also skipped lesson to go and have a smoke with two of her friends. She has some similar interests of a modern teen such as boys and perfume. Attitude towards her parents, she doesn't want to do everything they ask her to do.
The things that aren't typical of a teenager at her time was that she enjoyed french culture such as french music, the language, books. She didn't like England as much, she thought England was boring and that no one ever did anything with their lives.

2.
In both An Education and in Alfie, we see that men are quite carefree and they are in control of their relationships. Alfie and David are both confident men that are able to cheat on their girlfriends/wives without many consequences. On the other hand, in An Education we see quite a strong family unit, not all families are broken like in Alfie. Alfie doesn't want to marry, he's not ready to start a family. The women in both films, weren't expected to work. In An Education, the mother wasn't in charge of the money, this was also the case in Alfie where all of Alfie's girlfriends just cleaned the flat and cooked his dinner.

2a.
In all 3 of the films masculinity is very important for example in Alfie he is always in control of his relationships and has the women cooking and cleaning. In Kidulthood, it's the girls problem that she is pregnant and the boys say they 'own' them to some of the girls. In An Education, we see that the men are also in charge, for example, in the scene where David and Benny go to get the painting from the old woman's house, they tell Jenny and the other woman to stay in the car while they do their business, they tell them quite forcefully.

2b.
In Kidulthood the boys are willing to sleep with any of the girls in their year and don't have many values in Kidulthood one of the characters says to a girl your mine as if she is an object this is similar in Alfie when he doesn't care about the women he sleeps with and treats them as an object he always refers to women as 'it' and sleeps with many different women. However in An Education David and Jenny value sex and she isn't willing to have sex until shes 17 and David wants them to practice first which wouldn't happen in Kidulthood or Alfie.

3.a
Possitive review
This review is written by a teenager and he feels that the film does well to represent our generation, he makes the film sound like a gripping drama and that it makes you think because the target audience for this film is teenagers it would make them really want to see how they are represented. It doesn't mention the violence or sex scenes which would probably make the audience not want to see the film but says that it does well to represent teenage behaviour. This review does well to appeal to its teenage audience and they would be more willing to watch the film rather than Adults. It also mentions that the teenagers are British and gives a good review. 'this review doesn't do well to convince adults to go see the film because they may not find it there type of film but it could be interesting for them to see if their children behave in that way.


Negative review
The review is very negative and it gives the film a very bad name in the review he mentions that this film is racist which would instantly make people avoid the film. They mention that the language used in the film was unrealistic and that people didn't talk as they do in real life. The way that this person describes the film makes out that it is all stereotypical and unrealistic he mentions that  in the film the majority of the characters are black and are violent or drug dealers. The review says the white characters in the film are very bad at acting and using the slang. It also says that the parents are generic 'out of touch' parents, this may put parents or adults off the film because they could feel that it doesn't represent them very well.


3b.
We agree that the positive review, the film does well to represent west London teenagers. This review is right.