British screenwriter and playwright Jacques Thorne wrote several TV dramas that were hoping to raise political debate. Until last week, they never said.
Then, its new offer, “Adolescent”, appeared on Netflix.
In the days that have passed since its release on March 13, the four -part drama for a 13 -year -old boy spent a girl from his school after he was exposed to ideas for women hate online women. According to The Streamer, the most watched view on the platform was in dozens of countries after its first appearance, including the United States.
In Britain, the exhibition was more than just a subject of the workplace. The debate has sparked whether the government should restrict children to smartphones to prevent them from reaching harmful content.
Newspapers here published dozens of articles about “adolescence”, which Thorne wrote with actor Stephen Graham. London times title calls it “TV drama that every father must watch“And Activists to ban the phone in schools I reported an increase in support.
Also in the British Parliament, legislators used the offer to present political points. Last week, Prime Minister Kiir Starmer The House of Commons said He was watching a “adolescence” with his two children, and he said that the procedure is necessary to address the “deadly consequences” of young people and children watching harmful content online.
Thorne said in an interview that he was happy because the Prime Minister mentioned his offer. He added that he wanted the British lawmakers more than talking about his drama: He wanted them to pass a law that prevents young people from reaching social media until they are 16 years old.
“Drags” appeared at the moment of global anxiety about the impact of smartphones on children’s health and social development. Last year, Australia prevented children under 16 years of social media (although the law includes many exemptions). In February, the Denmark government announced that it would work soon Block smartphones in schoolsSomething that France has already carried out in primary and middle schools.
It seems that there is no appetite for a similar law between the ruling Labor Party in Britain. But there is a long history here on TV programs that transforms the topics of social interest into the most urgent political issues on this day, as they return to the 1960s, when the BBC broadcasts a courageous drama like Ken Lush “Cathy returning home.” This show lights light The ordeal of the homelessA topic that was discussed only a few at that time.
Recently, after broadcasting the year 2024 by “MR. Bates Vs. The Post Office”, a drama about hundreds of real postal workers who were wrongly convicted of theft, Rishi Sonak, Prime Minister at that time, announced a law for their excess.
James Strong, director of “MR. Bates Vs. The Post Office”, said that part of the reason that “trifles” was raising a lot of discussion is that viewers can easily contact the exhibition, which focuses on a regular loving family.
Strong said he was also exploited in social concern that was “ready to explode.”
Thorne said that he started working on “columns” about two and a half years ago when Graham, the actor, called him to say he was shocked by him A series of murders in Boys stab girls to deathAnd I wanted to write an offer, explore the reason for these crimes.
Initially, the couple struggled to define the motive for the main character of the show, Jimmy Miller (Owen Cooper), until the husband assistant suggested research in Incels, and men who see themselves as involuntarily stumbled against women via the Internet.
Thorne said that he bought a fireplace and prepared new social media accounts on him, then spent six months “diving into very dark holes” from the INCEL content via the Internet. He said that he made him realize that the dark account of the Ince Worldview – the belief that 80 percent of women are attracted to only 20 percent of men, so boys should manipulate girls if they want to find sexual partners – can seem “incredibly attractive” for many young people.
Thorne said that the search left him terrified that his 8 -year -old son would face such ideas when he gets a smartphone.
Daisy Greenwell, founder of childhood -free childhood in the organization, said that the show occurred to the “deep feeling of panic” that many parents felt, but “the government is behind this audience in this regard.”
Greenwell said that the supporters are discussing moments of the show that made them cry in the WhatsApp collection of the Foundation, and many have devoted the third episode of the series, where a psychiatric world, Erine Duhri, plays about his views about women. During the exchange, Jimmy turns from a sweet boy, innocent to anger -full teenager, and Greenwell said the change had disturbed many parents.
In an interview, the actors spent two weeks to train on the loop, which, like each part of the “teenager”, is a single shot that lasts about an hour. Then they registered 11 to take, as she said, and the director chose the last one.
Duhri said that she could only risk the reason for hitting such a nerve, but added that some of the appeal could be that the offer was not an education. Although many viewers were focusing on using smartphones as a operator for the fatal boy’s actions, the scenario of the show was “the courage to not give any answers,” she said.
Although Thorne, the co -writer, calls on laws to limit the use of smartphones in news media interviews, he said that his offer had only blaming technology. In “adolescence”, he said, the boy’s school is suffering from lack of funding and that teachers are very tense and very important to stop bullying, the police are unaware of how teenagers talk to each other on social media and that the boy’s friends and his family were unaware of what he was able to.
There is an old saying that the matter requires a village to raise a child, but Thorne said that he “takes a village to destroy a child.” He added that he only wanted a “adolescence period”, “to persuade that village to help these children.”
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