Research into controversial teen films

     

When I was researching different genres of teen film, I remembered that I watched a very controversial teen film growing up, and it opened my eyes to the dark places of teenhood I was yet to discover. This was the 2003 film 'Thirteen' which starred Evan Rachel Wood and Holly Hunter.


           

'Thirteen' was a controversial film as it was not like an coming of age film I had seen before. It tackled taboo issues which were never showed to this extent in any teen film before. The young protagonist who was only 13, had fallen into a whirlwind trap on drugs, sex and rock and roll essentially.

This is just one of drugs used to portray the rebellion and substance abuse in the film. I would apply this research into the production of my own teen film in a number of ways. Firstly, legally there will be no drugs used in my teen film, however the audience will be made much aware of the fact that teenagers like to experiment and it may go wrong. Secondly, I want to explore a different sort of coming of age film where it shows there are rough corners, and no teenager sails through their years perfectly.