TODolescence
Gender: dramatic
By Jack Thorne and Stephen Graham. Directed by Philip Barantini. With Stephen Graham, Owen Cooper, Ashley Walters, Erin Doherty, Faye Marsay, Christine Tremarco, Amélie Pease. On Netflix
Can an apparently normal thirteen -year -old turn into a killer? How much parents really know their children? How much dependence on social media can radicalize teenagers in their training process? Questions to which Teenagence He does not want to give answers, but bring to the attention of the debate.
The series, conceived by Stephen Graham (who also plays the father of the protagonist) and directed by Philip Barantini, He tells of a boy, Jamie Miller, who is arrested on charges of killing the peer Katie; For parents it is a serious blow, also because it is not the aim of the plot is not to discover the culprit (known from the beginning), but to investigate the reasons for such a gesture.
From left Owen Cooper and Erin Doherty, in “Teenascence” (Courtesy of Ben Blackall/Netflix).
Each episode is shot entirely with the technique of the sequence plan, that is, without detachments and assemblyas if it were a single long shot, as if the time of the narrative and the real one coincided.
In each episode, moreover, there is a different point of view and setting: the Miller house and the transfer to the police station, the school frequented by Jamie and her friends, the prison room where a dramatic confrontation between the boy and a psychiatrist is consumed. The result is an distressing fresco of a generation and its fragility.
To reflect on the impersencutable mystery of adolescence and the responsibilities of the parents.
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