Ill Manors Review

Ill Manors genre is a crime thriller which is set in East London. It has been set in real ‘crack den’ which was stated by Riz Ahmed in an interview for Ill manors. He emphasised that this was Plan B’s way of showing those who don’t understand what its like to grow up in situations where you have been bought up with no love. Plan B wanted to target those who didn’t understand why youths grow up to behave in such a poor manor hence the title of the film ‘Ill Manors.’

It is based on six separate lives, which each one of them feels as if they are all alone and try to find a way to survive in the streets of London. The six main characters are; Ed the thug, he will stop at nothing until he gets what he wants which is his phone which connects all the drugs. There is the ex-dealer Kirby who has just recently been released from prison. Then a female whose name is Michelle who is just looking for her next way to feed her drug addiction she has lost her way due to  being bought up in a poor environment. There is a young black boy named Jake who gets caught up in a local gang. There is Chris who is out to seek revenge on another one of the characters. Katya who tries to escape this foreign land because she wants something else other than to be trapped in life. Then lastly, our main protagonist Aaron who is just trying to fit in but at the same time trying to do the moral thing.

Plan B’s novelty is to use his own rap music parallel to the movie and to rap about the areas of Britain, showing how troubled young teenagers can be because of where they grow up. He wanted to show how youth’s can easily be led and get stuck in a viscous circle of life hence the reason he filmed it where he did (Circle Estate). Plan B gave real young teenagers who were unknown, yet from this area East London a chance to act in this movie as he only had a budget of £100,000 to make this movie. But, also he explained how it made more sense to people who can relate to this in real life, instead of those who just starring it in because there well known. Moreover, the audience can almost sense the frenzy of ideas in Plan B’s mind through his script as everything that happens, also everything that is said it has some sort of truth to it. The first hour of the movie starts off very chaotic and energetic as there are different stories going on at once.

Some people may watch Ill Manors and think Plan B has portrayed perfect stereotypes of youths who are raised in these areas. However, Plan B is trying to point out there is more to it than that and wants to show people who are so quick to judge kids like this that things aren’t as simple. People who judge as say things such as ‘I don’t want my child hanging around with someone like that’ instead of helping them they stereotype them. Plan B wants to point out that if you look at the bigger picture you will see these youths haven’t been raised with love and they feel they have no choice but to get by all alone.