Ill Manors Review

Ill Manors was directed by Ben Drew AKA Plan B. Ill Manors is his biggest movie prject to date and it was the first time he had directed such a successful film. The first film he directed was a short film called Michelle. He is also an actor and a musician.  

The actors that played the roles of characters in the film are recognisable however they have not acted in a vast range of mainstream films, so if the film was being watched by a mainstreamer it would be hard to recognise the actors. Riz Ahmed played the main role as being Aaron. He has been in other films such as Four Lions and Trishna. Another main character is Ed Skrein that plays a character called.

The storyline consists of a lot of drug use, abuse and dealing. It primarily Consists of four drug dealers that have a lot of conflict and problems within their society. The drug dealers need a source of income so if the drugs are not making enough money they will turn girls into prostitution if they have to. I think that

The main characters are Aaron and Ed, played by Riz Ahmed and Ed Skrein respectively, they acted very well portraying characters that are believed to have grown up in run down areas of London, come from a very complicated background and cannot keep themselves out of trouble. Other characters are Michelle that is acted out by Anouska Mond who acts as a crack-head who turns into prostitution as a way of making income. Marcel is also another character played by Nick Sagar that has a role of a young adult drug dealer who lives his life according to gang culture and also initiates younger members by performing such things as harming other people. Kirby was also another main character who was a major drug dealer who was responsible for a lot of other drugs within the area, this character was acted out by Keith Coggins. I think that all the actors played the role of their characters very well as none of the characters looked like they were out of place.

The mood of this film can be seen as very depressing as most of the characters are not in any happy situations and most of them are involved in a means of crime or negative situations. Also a lot of the characters die showing that if you live the kind of lifestyle the characters live, you are taking a lot of dangerous risks in your life. I would say the genre(s) this film revolves around is Crime/Thriller Drama.

The music used throughout the film was music that Plan B had written. It was mostly rap music that told stories of the characters in the film. He used a rap to introduce the characters into the film as he would tell us about their lives.  I would call Plan B’s style of telling a story ‘Musical Narration’ as he narrated the story in a style of music. His British voice also made the music parallel to the scenes. The genre of music that was used was Grime music which is a sub culture of Hip Hop.

I think the audience of this film would be mature young adults to adults reaching an age group of 18-55. I think this because the material of the film consists of a lot of Violence, Strong Language, Sex and Drug use. I think that if the film was viewed by a younger audience they would not take the film seriously or they might not be able to fully understand what is happening due to its mature nature and theme.  I think that the film is informative as it can educate an audience on how drug and gang culture has a lot of negativity attached to it.