Comparison of Alfie, An Education, and Kidulthood and Their Representations of British Values

Choose Key scenes from an Education/ Alfie/ Kidulthood
choose one which shows similarities in british Values
Choose different ones which show differences in British values.

Alfie
Key Scene 1
Gilda is pregnant and does not want to be shunned by society for having a child out of wedlock because this is what was expected in Britain at the time. No sex before marriage, and children should be born into a family.

Traditional family values conventional of britain in 1960s. Grow up > Marriage > Kids > Grow old 

Key scene 2
Alfie Goes over to ruby the Americans for sex, and find hers with a younger man in her bed. the only difference between the man in her bed and Alfie is that he is much younger then alfie.

Ruby is an unconventional women, this could be because she is American and  seems to be different from other women in the film, she has her own business and has business cards.

Key Scene 3


Kidulthood
Key Scene 1
Sam pushes over the girl who is being bullied as she walks out of school, and the helps her up as her dad comes along so he looks like a gentlemen, he then whispers in her ear to not say a word to her family.

Men still have control over women but only because they are much stronger then women although it is not socially acceptable to  hit women, Sam feels he is exempt fromt he rule as everyone is scared of him.

Key Scene 2
A 15 year old main character sleeps with her 17 year old boyfriend, she admits to him that she is 15 and he says he already knew and that he didnt care.

An Education
Key Scene 1
Jenny is Made to stay in the car while her boyfriend and another man go into a house to handle business.

This scene shows the power Men have over women and that women must obey, men have the control
 in relationships.

Key Scene 2
Jenny loses her virginity to a 30 year old man whilst off on one of her adventures with him.

Dating an older man is unconventional of the time, especially when she is still in school and he is almost twice her age, and the only people who show it is unconventional is the school, her parents only concern is the class of the man. In both Alfie and An education they show that value that people are more likely to settle down if they are with someone of a higher class.

Key Scene 3
Jenny Has dinner with her parents every evening until her BF comes along and she is in bed by 10 every night. Routine on school days and abides by parents ruling.