Skins doesn’t represent young people as a whole, it is a serials that is grossly over exaggerated. It presents young people as a bunch of foulmouthed inconsiderate – and to some existent even criminal. Skins very much carry’s the notion of ‘Generation whatever.’ It generalizes young people, using stereotypes that misrepresent us. The three characters in the episode ‘last bus’ are wearing scruffy clothes and swear and curse – and there is no consequences for their actions, instead Skins feels like it is almost incentivising this behaviour.
The three youths than processed to break into a car that doesn’t belong to them. This showing that they are criminals, who don’t care about the law – or anything else of that matter, and whilst in the car the boys become louder and more obnoxious.
In the morning the boys awake and one of them begins to urinate over someone else’s property, and when the owner of the house comes out he is wearing a suit and tie, which is a large contrasted between him and the youth. Even know his property is being vandalised, the man says nothing, and the youth gets away wit hit.
The three boys seem to be from a working class Background, and the makers of skins are very much stereotyping the youth from that background. It totally demonises the youth and makes them out to look like uncaring, unsociable vandals.
Thursday, 3 December 2009
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