Movie "Thirteen

Movie "Thirteen

Movie: “Thirteen“
As Granville Stanley Hall, who was focused on childhood development and evolutionary theory, referred adolescence to the phrase "storm and stress", for the majority of adolescent children, the sudden onslaught of hormones and changes in the body can create very mixed feelings, and confuse the brain. This can result in violent and sudden mood swings, and feelings of stress, anxiety and paranoia. The “Thirteen”, however, represents importance of external surroundings as well as the internal changes mentioned by Hall on viewing reasons about juvenile delinquency. As we learned through our textbook, the surroundings can be family, peers and gender. Therefore, the relation between juvenile delinquency and these surroundings will be reviewed how to be illustrated at the movie, and then I will evaluate what theories can be applied to explain Tracy’s situation depending on our textbook.
In its opening scene, Tracy (Evan Rachel Wood) looks straight to camera and demands “Hit me harder!” before she and Evie (Nikki Reed), her equally drug-addicted school friend, laugh and exchange bloody facial punches. This scene describes “Thirteen” seems to be like a story simply dealing with problem children. In reality, however, the internal and external transformation of Tracy, which can not help occurring from a ”normal” girl to a problem kid because of her gender, family, and peers, is focused on this movie by the director, Catherine Hardwicke. In brief, Tracy is a normal 13-year-old girl trying to make it in school when the scene is back to four months earlier. After befriending Evie at school, she rapidly declines from a family girl and a diligent pupil to a body-pierced, sexually active, drug-using and drug-dealing, out-of-control teenage rebel. After separated from Evie with her mother’s efforts, she seems to be back to normal herself. In the ending scene, however, her screaming represents that the prohibition from Evie is not the best solution to cure her...

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