Havoc Movie Analysis

Havoc is a movie that gives an insight to what it is like for some adolescents. In the movie, the two crucial characters are Allison and Emily. These girls, like almost every other person in this movie, are white upper-class teens who try to emulate gang and street life. They are so eager to experience the street life and would do anything to make it seem as if they are from the hood. They are naïve in some ways, but go to the far extreme to be something that they are not. Even in the beginning of the movie, one can see that Allison, Emily, and their friends have this fascination to appear as if they are from the streets, even though they are well off. After Allison’s boyfriend, Toby, gets threatened by a gang member, Hector, the girls still

All the high school students, except Eric, had this urge to do something risky in order to appear a certain way or to impress others. This is generally how teens get themselves involve in crimes they did not know they have committed. Sometimes, teens may feel trapped and would want to explore something out of their comfort zone. In the movie, we can see that there is a lot of drug use and even underage drinking. This was often seen at regular social hangout parties. In an effort to appear “cool”, many of the teens engage in this behavior. That is not all. There are also sexual activities that goes on. We see Allison perform sex acts on her boyfriend at the party. This is not really all about peer pressure in this case. No one is pressuring them into doing these things. They are most likely doing these things because they think that this is the type of behavior that is done in the “hood”. One can come to the conclusion that Allison and Emily’s friends might have seen or heard something in the media that seems to glamorize the type off lifestyle that they are trying to emulate. When Allison and Emily go for a drive with their boyfriends, they always seem to want to go the hood part of the neighborhood. They see how tough they act over there and think it is a way to act. Allison and Emily were the only ones out of their whole friends that were longing to continue going back to Hector’s rough neighborhood, and thus put themselves in a position to be manipulated, just because they wanted to join a gang. They were willing to be someone that they were not just to fit in. This is why Hector told Allison, “You ain't real. There's nothing real about you. Your talk ain't real, Your walk ain't real, the way you dress ain't real. You don't even copy it from the real thing, you fucking get it from the TV” (Havoc) . Allison and Emily knew this was not the type of life for them. They also knew that this