SAPPORO wrote: ↑Fri Mar 28, 2025 12:21 pm
Watched
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolescence_(TV_series) - not sure about what they are trying to convey and not sure about the screenplay. I guess since it was filmed in one continuous take, it seemed like a home video at worst and an embedded documentary at best.
Need a lot of patience to watch this.
Having said that, amazing acting by everyone.
I watched it too after it has become the ‘most watched limited series’ in shortest time
.
Liked father’s and teenager’s performances and it does ask some deep questions. One take format needs lot of commitment from actors/crew and they did a good job.
But the hype and soul searching questions parents(all over the world) are supposedly asking themselves, Britain schools to include the watch as mandatory, parents asking for cellphone ban till 14 seems overkill to me. So if kids use cellphone/online chat rooms/Reddit/Instagram etc after 14 is OK? And if they resort to killing when they are 15/16 , then will parents ask to raise the limit to 18? And if such murders happen in university campuses..then what?
Teenagers have serious body image issues, are subjected to body/fat shaming, their brains are still evolving till they are 19-20 and not fully developed physically/mentally yet is known to most
parents/educators.
But how do vast majority of parents/their kids cope with it? Toxic masculinity/Andrew Tate type of personality influence afflicts boys but there aren’t toxic girls?
Majority of Parents/Students handle the social media intrusion much maturely as social media became a part of life for last 10+ years. Responsible parents involve kids in after-school activities, extra curriculars(dance/music/team sports/individual sports etc), community outreach, volunteering, family time, strict rule on online hours, bed time, regular chats with each other etc.
Didn’t bullies exist before social media too?
Didn’t ‘Animal’ movie which promoted toxic character/misogyny was a blockbuster couple of years ago and was watched mostly by 21-45 age group in India?
Debate on what is good for the society should be happening all the time, so behavior can be tweaked but not with just one movie or web series IMO. ..