The Hotel Scene, The Phone call to Trife and Where Humphrey proposes to Gilda.
Pregnancy is a huge topic in all three Films. Where as in An Education contraception is hinted at in the scene of the Hotel where David brings out the banana. However, in Alfie set only a few years later, contraception wasn't shown in any of his relation scenes. We also know that even though it's not shown, it isn't used because Alfie gets two people pregnant. Comparing these two films to the present day film these two values are mentioned in Kidulthood, Trife mentions the morning after pill which is used after using no protection.
In Alfie, Gilda wants to marry because she's pregnant, in An Education it is hinted David got married because he got a girl pregnant, however in Kidulthood, Alisa is pregnant, but marriage is not mentioned which shows that marriage is not valued as highly as it used to be.
Even though all three films show people from different backgrounds of London, pregnancy is still a huge issue.
Smoking.
In An Education, Jenny does not smoking front of her mother and father, but with her school girl friends she smokes like a chimney, including her fancy cigarettes from France. We see her mother smoke alot and her father not at all. It seems a very casual thing for older generationals and in the 60's it was considered sophisticated and was sociable. By the end of the film, 17 year old Jenny has been turned into a incredibly mature and sophisticated woman who could be mistaken for a 25 year old, goes into Davids Glove box and casually attempts to smoke in front of her parents, going from being scared of smoking in front of them to not caring.
Alfie and Ruby smoke like a chimney , here class and sophistication is not shown, it's more of a everyday thing to smoke.
Kidulthood shows smoking as more of a habit and a necessity of the Urban culture.
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