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My Brother The Devil is a British urban youth drama set in Hackney. The story follows two teenage brother's struggles growing up in East London and face conventional issues of media aimed at a young audiences including voilence, drugs, money, sexuality, gang rivalry and theft. The story is about the older of the two brothers trying to keep his younger more innnocent brother from making the same mistakes that he did getting himself involved with gang and drug crime when he was younger. From what we see from the film the two brothers have an extremely close relationship as the older brother plans to move his family out of hackney and send his brother to collage

I think the film portrays the sensitive issues from this genre very effectively but at the same time exaggerated for dramatic effect. There is a big twist about half way through the film, where it turns out the older brother, who was homophobic and sickned by it at first, comes out to be gay. This adds a fresh layer to conventional urban dramas that explores masculinity, cultural roots and beliefs about sexuality. It was very hard for older brother to realise he was gay when he was against it for so long by the pressures of the gangs in Hackney.

This is similar to the plot of our short film as are two main characters are the older brother, Michael and younger brother, Jason. Michael is a hard worker who wants to keep his brother out of trouble and off the streets. Similar to how Rash looks over his younger brother Mo. However, we wanted to go against the classic conventions by having the brothers living on their own without their parents making it a more diverse situation. We will also use the more frequently used conventions of urban youth dramas such as slang, drugs, guns and crime.