Kidulthood Blamed

Kidulthood has been blamed for glamorizing and exaggerating levels of knife crime, underage sex and drug-taking among London's youth in Kidulthood, the shocking and startlingly popular low-budget film Noel Clarke wrote and starred in.
Kidulthood's subject matter is now the stuff of every newspaper front page and government directive, and Clarke has written and directed a sequel, Adulthood, in cinemas from today, featuring most of the same characters five years on, failing to break the cycle of violence and criminality.
He stated "I think Kidulthood was in tune with the times, reflective of the damage youths were doing back then [in 2006], but a lot of people chose to ignore it," says Clarke gloomily. "Hopefully, Adulthood could be the start of some sort of repair, because it shows young people you can actually walk away from things. Kidulthood was viewed as the glamorizing negative themes. I recall watching Kidulthood a few years back, and as I was watching it i kept thinking that the story-line is way too much exaggerated and it definatley might have some sort of bad influence on teenagers to perform the same activities within the film.
Some people argue that it is not the Media to blame for the violence and knife/gun crime in our society today. "I think Kidulthood was in tune with the times, reflective of the damage youths were doing back then [in 2006], but a lot of people chose to ignore it," says Clarke gloomily. "Hopefully, Adulthood could be the start of some sort of repair, because it shows young people you can actually walk away from things.''
The director of both Adulthood and Kidulthood, Noel Clarke believes that Adulthood will give people a more moral approach to life and that it is OK to walk away from a fight. Since Kiduthood caused such a stir with the audience he believed that Adulthood will show that it is not always about revenge and looking 'BIG' in front of your peers.
In the end, a chance remark by actress Red Madrell about her character Alisa's future development spurred Clarke and producer George Isaac into action. They kicked some ideas around, then Clarke wrote the first draft of Adulthood in a week. "I knew I wanted it to be about this guy who thought he was the top dog, was put in a place full of horrible people, and found out he was just a little boy full of bravado," says Clarke. Therefore really Adulthood could be argue to give people a clear picture of how life really is and even though you might think that you're the top man, you will change your views when you're taken out of your well-known neighbourhood.