Ill manors review

Ill Manors Review

Ill Manors is a British urban crime drama directed by the rapper and songwriter Ben Drew also known as Plan B. The movie is based around what the artist and director Plan B has created a movie based on different stories in the gritty or “hood” of East London. The movie revolves around drugs, weapons, sex and violence.

Ill Manors is directed and so what some would say was the unique selling point is for this film is that Ben Drew often narrated the drama by rapping and writing songs to narrate what was happening at that time which is very smart because it engages the audience with the music but also tells a story. The introduction of the movie is calm and doesn't show much violence or drama and shows numerous shots of drug dealers bagging up cocaine and dealing while the narrator Ben Drew raps and narrates the movie.

The movies is to entertain but also inform the audience about everything around them and what happens in society and in today's youth. One scene showed a classic example of gang culture where one of the boy named Jake standing with his friends who wants to buy drugs from the usual drug dealers. Jake helps his friend and goes to buy some marijuana from the drug dealers but they take his money and told him he will only get it if he beats his friend up. This forces him to do this to get what he wants he accepts and does so. After he does this the main gang leader is impressed and decides to bring young Jake into his gang. So this sort of thing reminds the youth watching that you should just stick to what you know and now try to please other people because, just like the film, it will just come back to being hurt or in trouble.

One of the main stories that people were intrigued about was the character Michelle, who’s a woman from Manchester and comes to London to prostitute herself to balance her addiction and in the film she owes money for a lost phone and is forced to prostitute around various shops including fast food shops to corner shops by a dealer called Ed. This shows the danger of these drug dealers because the woman is afraid so prostitutes to pay back what she owes. This also shows the audience their desperation for money so result too many unusual things. There is a twist in this because they soon realise she isn't responsible for the lost phone so has suffered for nothing. This makes Aaron the main character feel guilt but his partner Ed feels nothing at all and laughs. This connotes that not all drug dealers are selfish and have no heart as Aaron tries to help the girl out and tells her to go and be free.

The last third of the movie is full of drama that is all brought together into the pub when Ed dies trying to do a good deed of saving the child but suffers death due to his past actions. On the other hand Aaron is able to travel to find his parents who abandoned him from an early age and goes on to live a normal life due to his goodness in character. The whole film shows that there is many things that happen behind the scenes that society aren't aware of. For example, although Aaron was a drug dealer at first he shows a goodness in heart which people aren't usually aware of because of the gritty crimes that characters like this commit.

Ben Drew then makes an intelligent appearance at the end of the film when Aaron is in a cab going to meet his birth parents and Ben Drew is the cab driver and his face is shown in the rear view mirror which is a very good way to round off the movie.

Overall, the movie shows what really happens on the outskirts of London and that London is not perfect. There are problems such as people stereotyping people in council estates or young people as dumb or chavs or drug dealers. Then this film shows what happens when the characters have no shame and do what they need to do to get money. Whether it prostituting themselves or selling drugs.