Netflix film Adolescence is certainly the talk of the town and understandably.
The four-episode miniseries tells the story of 13-year-old Jamie who kills a schoolmate, stabbing her multiple times.
His parents had no idea what he was doing in his room on his computer into all hours of the night.
But there is much more to it than that. He’s scared he may be ugly, other boys maybe laughing at him and girls might not be interested in him.
What’s his relationship with his father?
There are aspects about the last episode that are difficult to understand. How could mother and father have been so happy early in the day on the father’s 50th birthday.
Jamie’s father is a working class man. What does that say to us about what happened? Would a more middle-class father have got into similar rages, at least in the public place?
Little Jamie is not interested in his Dad’s football, nor is he any good at playing the game. Most of all he likes sketching and drawing. And that too is interesting.
A film well worth a viewing.
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