The world of children today is completely different from what it was for your parents. one A scene from the famous Netflix series “Adolescent” How great is this difference.
In the second episode, Detective Luke Baskumb (Ashley Walters) will visit a high school Searched Why Jimmy Miller (Owen Cooper(13, he was claimed that he killed his colleague Katie. Based on their Instagram interactions, they were supposed to have friends or even have a relationship.
This is even Ibn Baskumb – who is also a school student – tells him that he is completely Deception.
Katie’s unpopular emojis were actually commented on Jimmy’s publications. Dynamite Emoji represents a “red pill” exploding, reference to “Manosphere”. The icon 100 is another symbol of the male community, indicating a theory within these circles that attract 80 % of women to only 20 % of men.
In other words, Katie meant that Jimmy was “Incel”.
For Bascombe and other adults, the revelation is horrific – it is clear that they have no idea about the harmful ideas that children are exposed to under their care and how it affects their lives.
This separation is located in the “teenage” center, which, since its first appearance, has led to discussions about young people’s vision, the Inceel culture, the use of smartphones and more.
British series begin as a police drama, but throughout its four episodes, it was achieved in what could have been driving an innocent boy to commit a very terrible thing.
The answers you find are not simple.
A CNN He spoke to Jack Thorne, the author of this series, about his journey through the darkest of the Internet, the aforementioned anger and what his parents are expected to learn from this series.
The conversation was edited for access and clarity.
The series deals with many current topics: Manosher, modern masculinity, online bullying. What prompted you to tell this story?
Everything began with my friend (and co -author of the series) Stephen Graham. He called me and said that we must write an offer about boys who hate girls and knife crimes, which are a big problem here in the United Kingdom.
From this, we start talking about male anger, our anger, our division. We try to build a complex image of masculinity: how we were formed and how teenagers are formed today in similar ways, but also with many differences.
Were these topics something worried about you for some time?
Yes, but somehow, left them aside.
When I deepened to try to understand her, I found many things that surprised me – thoughts that if I had heard them at the wrong time, they could lead me to the paths that I thank you not to follow.
The ideology is behind an attractive Inceel culture because it gives meaning to many feelings: isolation, self -celebration, and feeling unjust. She says there is a reason for the world to be against you: because it was built from a female perspective and women carry all the strength.
These ideas indicate that you must improve, go to the gym, learn to manipulate and cause damage.
How was the search process to create Jimmy’s character?
I explored many dark corners of the Internet, such as Reddit and 4chaan, and changed an algorithm. I have created many fake accounts on the main social networks and began to follow the clear people. These people led me to others less clear, and these were the most interesting.
There is no 13 -year -old boy who really consumes Andrew Tate. What they consume are the influencers of games, television or music that were influenced by it and spreading his ideas now differently. This level of the waterfall was the place where my attention focused on understanding how Jimmy was formed.
Was there a central question you wanted to answer?
Why Jimmy did this? We always said, “This is not” who killed? “But” Why did you kill? “
For this reason, in the second episode, we go to school – because if you don’t see the educational system, we will not understand the protagonist correctly. If we do not see that your colleagues interact, we will not understand. In the third chapter, we try to understand how your mind works and what has been absorbed.
In the fourth episode, we reached the most complex point. We don’t just want to blame parents in everything, but they are partially responsible. How do they deal with this issue of responsibility? How many obligations should you assume?
Jimmy’s descent was discovered to violent women from different views: school, family and social networks. Where did he make a mistake?
There is this phrase: “It takes a village to raise a child.” It also takes a village to destroy and destroy Jimmy.
He was harmed by a school system that he did not help. By parents who did not see him really. By friends who may not be able to reach the way he needed. Through your mind’s chemistry. And the ideas I consumed. All of these factors are at stake.
You have a small child. How do you deal with these issues as a father?
We have not yet reached this point. He is about to be 9 years old and loves “Gremlins” and Rold D. He has not yet been interested in mobile phones, blog blog or blogs.
The question is what we will do when the pressure begins. When he goes to high school and 80 % of the classroom has a smartphone, one also wants? When colleagues take the phone to the bed, and he wants to do the same?
It is terrified. The solution may be in collective procedures, not individual. For example, parents’ groups that discuss these issues so that when our children reach 11 years, many of them still have any mobile phones – and the cell phone refuses to my son is not terrible as it can be.
What do you need to change to avoid youth extremism?
We need to find a way to deal with social networks. How do you do this when large companies will not organize alone?
In the United Kingdom, we are trying to discuss the government on the digital age of approval. In Australia, children under the age of 16 are prohibited from using social networks, and it is up to companies to ensure this compliance. I hope we can start discussing this here. But how do you solve this in the United States now? I have no idea.
Today I read about a group of parents in (England) who work together to prevent their children from having smart phones in this decisive age. This can be huge, but it is a very complex problem that requires complex solutions.
Each episode was filmed in one sequence plan. How did it affect the narration?
It was not my decision. This was something that director Phil Parantini and Stephen Graham suggested, and I was very excited about this idea.
(Graham) told me that there is a base for filming in the sequence: the camera cannot go anywhere without a human personality. This forced us to find ways to tell different stories at the same time, and to keep the audience’s attention.
This also requires a more self -approach in history. The audience usually provides as much information as possible – cutting to the victim’s family, to the legal process, for the detective that deals with the missing knife. But here, we could not change the time and space so quickly.
This coordination brought out the audience out of the comfort zone and made it turbulent – and played for us.
What do you expect viewers to take from this series?
Listen to children. They are very weak now and need you. This applies to everyone: parents, teachers and politicians. Young people are excluded and suffer a lot. We need to help them because they are in trouble.
There are no simple answers, but the main answers are: let children speak. Or discover a way to make them speak. Only then we can help them.
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