Stereotypes In Girlhood

Girlhood, the English translation of French Bande de filles, is not only entertaining but it is also intriguing. The audience watching the movie on the screen as well as its live performance would appreciate how the director Céline Sciamma successfully uses the teenage girls to tell a story of African French adolescent girls. The drama movie conjures up feelings of sympathy and sadness in viewers because of how the young lady characters struggle to fight the desires that come with adolescence. The characters in the drama are members of a girl gang who are portrayed as being morally decadent- shoplifting beauty accessories and lodging rooms. This is the group that the naïve Marieme hopes that she will find comforting to her. Most of the critics of this movie suggest that Sciamma's story is the actual representation of adolescent forces while others find the movie superficial.
According to A.O Scott, the film is a display of the stereotypes that the society has towards gender. The director has gone out of the ordinary to reveal that when it comes to growing up, the girl child is not always a victim of negativity. It would have been expected that the gang of girls is known for all forms of evils that girls are stereotyped with. Furthermore, Scott finds the movie interesting in how it twists the issue of gender and teenage hood. The intent
The camera depicts a circular motion of screaming young women with smartphones as they cheer on the violent beating between Marieme and her peer. Marieme emerges as a dominant force where she ceremoniously defeats her counterpart that I find to be particularly problematic. This scene simply depicts black girls as exhibiting animalistic tendencies, holding judgment on a community that is lacking any form of moral