I went to the cinema the other night to see Harry Brown. Its a movie about an old man Named Harry who lives in a poor council estate in England. It looks rather rough and not a very nice place to stay. Harry has a friend, one friend and his wife past away in hospital.
Now, there is a group of teens that hang about outside the flats that Harry and his pal stay in, causing bother, vandalizing, beating up people etc..Harry's friend has a lot of bother with this group and has talked to the police but they never did anything.
One night he is sitting sleeping in his living room, he wakes up because of smoke, the group had set a paper bag, filled with dog poo, on fire and put it through his letter box. The old man then looses his temper, and that's it. He goes down to face them with a knife and the gang end up killing him.
the film then goes on and Harry wanting his revenge starts killing all the young ones, he dosnt take to well and ends up in hospital. Then the police finds out that it him but he gets away as he saves a police officers life and its all a happy ending.
But the point to me telling you this is, this actually happens, Gangs do go about, killing people and not a care in the world. It really shocked me and also upset me to a certain extent. It would really upset me if the elderly were having problems with certain gangs and did talk to the police and nothing was done to help them. Some of them may be to scared to talk to the police in case something happened to them. I hope that this film will raise awareness, It certainly did for me.
I think this is probably more common that what we are aware. I know when I was younger, large groups used to hang around in public areas and the local newspaper reported older people feeling threaten. Even though no one would have harmed them I can understand why gangs of youths can scare or intimidate other people.
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