'Urban' being a euphemism for an unflinching depiction of under-age sex, drug-taking and fatal violence in a gun-riddled London that would have granny trembling behind the sofa. Campaigners tried to ban Kidulthood for supposedly glamorising these issues. Yet Clarke denies his films have a negative impact on youth.
'if people want to see certain things they're always going to pull that certain thing out of there. But you sometimes have to show the negativity to show the positivity that arises from it. I think if newspapers focused on how things could change rather than just sensationalising things that are happening, or saying movies are trying to glamorise them, then we could be in a better position.'
Binary Opposition is shown here between the youth and the older generation as
the 'granny' would be 'trembling behind the sofa' opposite to what shes used to. Negative impact of youth is created as well as moral panic. People think that all youth are this way when it is only the minority.
Read more: http://www.metro.co.uk/metrolife/175544-from-kidulthood-to-adulthood#ixzz1g2g1HAfH
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