Youth Culture Example Synopsis (My Brother The Devil)

MY BROTHER THE DEVIL: Two teenage brothers must face their prejudices head on if they are to survive the perils of being young, British Arabs on the streets of gangland London. It tells the story of two brothers living in the gang-ruled, drug-afflicted estates of Hackney. The younger of two, Mo, (played by the amateur actor Fady Elsyad) idolises his drug-dealing older brother Rashid (James Floyd), but as he gets drawn more into his world, he realises and uncovers truths which causes schisms between them, their friends and the gang-land hierarchy. The films main thread revolves around a gangland turf-war, with the two brothers struggling for an identity in the escalating violence.