500 word review

Ill Manors is a rap film about a drug dealer and a prostitute on a London housing estate. Ben Drew also known as Plan B, is mainstream British rap artist who wanted to go into a filmmaking career debuted as a director in this low budget movie. This film addresses many issues in society and messages overlapped by an illustration or a lyric. One of the strong messages is ‘Look what happened to children when they are abandoned, neglected or abused by their parents and adults. This represents the gritty surroundings and environments the children are around in. Drew issues to makes sure that his audience understand this message and main concept of the film.

The narrative involves a set of characters with intertwined fates at the end providing synergy. It starts with the introduction of some drug dealers: Chris (Lee Allan) a private worker in drugs and criminal acts, typically a dominant character. One of the main if not the main protagonists, Aaron (Riz Ahmed) and Ed (Ed Skrein) friends from the same care home, who are involved in minor crimes except for dealing with drugs. The next characters introduced to the plot are the prostitutes of the estate who are also drug users, Michelle (Anouska Mond) another lonely operative regularly mistreated by everyone and Katya (Natalie Press) a lady from East Europe who has runaway from the human traffickers that imported her into Britain. From some lyrics performed by Plan B forecasted some flashback clips of the two females, showcasing how their life came about and how they ended up in their current situation.

Plan B or Ben Drews’s intensions are to show us what kind of things impacts people current state and he expects us to understand what made them be abnormal, this is consistently emphasised in the film. It is to inform the viewer as well as sympathises them. This is one of the film's strengths strong sets.

Chris is represented as a dominant antagonist who is antisocial male with no loyalty or any set on stone moral codes to live by. Ed is a masculine thug who mistreats Michelle just simply because he has power over her, which reinforces some theories that men have power over females. 

Performances were outstanding even from minor roles who don’t show case their skills in most of the film. The soundtrack is fantastic performed by Plan B and some collaboration work. The film ends with the intense track Drug Dealer (the story of Chris's life). Drew has used some young rap artists/singers feature on some of the tracks.

The finale is dreadful and heartbreaking in equal measures but the end offers anticipation, as three of the characters seem to make a positive change to their lives for the good. Appropriately this occurs because of the troubles of Katya's baby, highlighting the film's focus upon young children and their need for adults to assist them to mature into vigorous adults that can contribute to society. That is controversial as some people disagree with what the aim of the film is.