For this blog I have chosen to focus on the film The Firm, but more importantly it's portrayal of the immoral and bad behaviour that the film highlights fully: football hooliganism.
Basically, the film focuses on a group of men in the 1980s whom all have good middle class lives, jobs and even the nuclear family. They are living the "Thatcher dream" but are not happy. So in order to express their unhappiness, they group together and become football hooligans, violent football hooligans.
However, there is one moment of the film, right at the end, that could be viewed as being in favour of this form of bad behaviour. In the final moments one of the members of the groups toasts and says, "if they stop us at football, we'll just go to boxing or snooker."(source: http://www.screenonline.org.uk/tv/id/439285) The reason I say this could be viewed in favour is because it is implying that it isn't football that causes the violence, it's the people and they'd end up causing violence with or without football. Football just gave them an excuse and being a "social realist" film, I fully believe this point can and is translated into reality.
Basically, the film focuses on a group of men in the 1980s whom all have good middle class lives, jobs and even the nuclear family. They are living the "Thatcher dream" but are not happy. So in order to express their unhappiness, they group together and become football hooligans, violent football hooligans.
However, there is one moment of the film, right at the end, that could be viewed as being in favour of this form of bad behaviour. In the final moments one of the members of the groups toasts and says, "if they stop us at football, we'll just go to boxing or snooker."(source: http://www.screenonline.org.uk/tv/id/439285) The reason I say this could be viewed in favour is because it is implying that it isn't football that causes the violence, it's the people and they'd end up causing violence with or without football. Football just gave them an excuse and being a "social realist" film, I fully believe this point can and is translated into reality.
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