Top Boy analysis

Within the beginning of the opening scene of Top Boy, there were different variations of both positive and negative aspects of the youth generation. For example, for the introduction, you could see that within the first minute, there were at least 2 or more positive and negative things. One of the negatives is that the boys look very scruffy and that may be because it is after school, but they may also dress like that in school; this may encourage the young people to also dress like this as they may want to look like the characters appearing on Top Boy. As there were more positives than negatives noticed, one positive was that the two young boys came home right after school portraying them to be 'good boys' and not random 'thugs' on the street hanging around after school near the shops, however, as the audience don't know that they are just assuming that they boys may be good. On the other hand, as one of the boys has an ice cream in his hand may suggest that the boys could have come home later after school from coming back from the shops reinforcing stereotypes of being a stereotypical youth within today's society. Also, another positive is that the young boy is concerned about his mother not being at home and his friend offers a friendly gesture to stay with him until his mother returns showing an optimistic view on the younger generation. The way that the boy is concerned about his mother even though he lives within an estate, shows how much he cares as usually, estate teenagers within society are represented as negative youths and this subverts this theory. Also, another negative representation within the opening scene was that there was a lot of swearing included and as there may be a lot of young viewers watching this TV series even though it is not necessarily targeted towards them, they may also pick up on swearing as may want to carry out the trend represented within Top Boy.