Adolescence: Why is it necessary for all men and young boys to see Netflix series

Be careful, spoilers! This article is described in detail about the intrigue of the adolescent series. If you haven’t seen this yet and don’t want to know about the content, don’t continue to read.

On Netflix on March 13, adolescence is a real fever. These British mini series tells the story of Jamie Miller (Owen Cooper), a 13 -year -old boy accused of killing a classmate, Katie Leonard. The girl struck in the parking lot seven times (!) Near her school.

Filmed with video cameras, during his action, Jamie was arrested in Manu Militar in the armed police horde until their teeth in the early morning with their parents as if they came to scatter the terrorist. The tone is set from the beginning and the series is not going to relieve pressure.

Because this brutal attack raises a difficult but essential question: Why do men continue to commit such acts of violence against women? And there, in this case a young boy to a young girl?

The series is not satisfied to respect the classic police framework that will remove any impact on the message he intends to convey. It looks sharply with the public problem. “We wanted to ask the question: What is happening to our young people today? What are the challenges they face, if not through their peers, internet or social networks?“Explains Stephen Graham, Co-Creator and Series Chief Actor on the site Tudum.

A fictional story but a corrected reality

If adolescence is not based on a real thing, it is inspired by various facts that become recurrent. “For the past ten years, we have attended the true epidemic of crimes on which the knife is committed by young boys in the United Kingdom“, Graham trusts Radio time. “But what they really thought was when young boys killed young girls. I wanted to understand why.“

This is more than the reality of the alarm is confirmed by the National Police Chiefs Council (NPCC, which can be translated by the National Council of Police Managers) in July last year and which was the subject of the article Guardian. She believes that at least one of 12 women annually will be a victim of sexist or sexual abuse. It represents 2 million victims …

If the situation is not disturbing, the report also emphasizes that the attackers are increasingly young. Finally, observers have believed that this phenomenon is partially impregnated with the online content of extreme nature. That is, there is a whole share of “education”, learning to live and interact with others who have escaped parents who have children born in the 21st century and for whom social networks are a real expansion of their social life.

Social networks and toxic themes

And this is what we will understand during episodes. Because adolescence is demonstrating real. The series reinforces the flock of what many adults neglect: how the boys can affect harmful individuals who are completely unpunished.

Movement RetiredThe “manosphere” (which is defined by the internet of the masculine field) and the influence of personalities, such as Andrew Tate (masculine influential), is directly considered. “I learned that the boys were talking about him“The teacher said in the series. This is all toxic masculinity.

Ashley Walter, who portrays inspector Luke Basomb, discovers that his son, Adam, is well known to these very coded language and these online topics. This observation is pushing the police officer, but he is likely to know about these social phenomena, to revise the role of his father and the importance of authentic dialogue with his son.

A necessary preventive education

At the end of its four episodes, the series then asks the question, as they are expected: How to avoid preventing men’s violence? For Steven Graham it all starts with the education of young boys: “We need to give them the necessary tools to understand and manage their emotions, especially in the light of refusal and frustration.“

Because it was a refusal and frustration that Jamie led to this extreme gesture. He was a victim of ridicule and cyberattack. Even a few months after the drama, when it is located in a specialized center before its trial, a 13 -year -old boy is located with the same aggression, the same violence, and does not seem to regret the life of his classmate.

Let’s go back to the inspector BasomB. The series delivers a scene that can look harmless, and is still necessary for teenagers education, where she offers her child a simple moment: sharing potatoes and discussing something else. As trivial as possible, it is actually crucial. This is simply a matter of creating a dialogue space before frustration and madness causes violence. His son is also marginalized at high school and his father does not realize this …

Notification

Let’s be sure: adolescence is not trying to teach an inexperienced excuse, nor to teach viewers. It is an issue to study and understand the deep causes of male violence and to find the aforementioned decisions. “What I was wondering was to understand how these actions come and what we could do to avoid their reproduction“Explains Graham.

In adolescence, adolescence goes beyond the dangers of online radicalization and the essential role of parents and education.

By sending a subject of society, which is perfectly neglected by politicians despite repeated drama and deaf violence that meets each and everyone in everyday life, it is distinguished as an essential series. Because it is to create a discussion. It is also an elementary reminder that the fight against violence against women begins well before taking action.

Adolescence is now available on Netflix.