On the left is Terry (me) a character from our short film ‘Estate of Mind’ opening sequence, on the right is Trife (Aml Ameen) a character from ‘Kidulthood’ They both play similar roles in these two films. Terry is a young man who tries to change his ways of drugs and gang violence to support Josephine and her child. Trife is also a character in Kidulthood who has gotten his girlfriend pregnant and tells her that he will stay by her side; she doesn’t want him to be a part of a gang and wants him to turn his life around. In the end both these characters die. It shows the emotion of the whole situation and that exiting a life of crime is not as easy as when you entered and there is always going to be obstacles in your way you will have to fight in order to escape and create a better life for yourself.
Both these characters are conventional to the genre of an urban drama; they are used as secretly soft characters with a side of them which only true love can expose, they are characters which an audience will become emotionally attached to and can really relate to how this character is feeling even if they have never been in a similar situation.
They are both wearing dark clothing and are both black males, this is a stereotype of all black males to be in a gang or involved in crime one way or another. What both these characters try to do is create a countertype character which tries their very best to do exactly the opposite of what the stereotype is expecting them to do. This gives the audience hope that this character will make a difference and break out of the cycle, which is the whole point of the film, however, in the end, sadly the audiences dreams are shattered as both these characters die, but they haven’t died in vain and have changed the lives of those around them for the better.
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