« Adolescence » shows how a boy becomes a women’s murderer – Diepresse.com
In the British Netflix series, you can look deeply into the abysses of a misogynic society and its extreme subgroups. The focus is on a boy that everyone could have been.
Jamie Miller is actually a normal boy. 13 years old, narrow, freckles. He smiles heartily, likes hot chocolate and he is clever. Everyone seems to agree: parents, teachers, the police. His family usually looks lovingly, the father Eddie may be a little inaccessible. Jamie (Owen Cooper) is the protagonist of the British Netflix series « Adolescence », which is currently going through the ceiling. In the first three days alone, she recorded 24.3 million views. It is widely discussed in the media, mostly praised.
The boy killed his school colleague Katie. With seven knife stings in chest, arm and neck. You can see that quite quickly, at the end of the first episode (four are available in total) on a surveillance admission in the interrogation room of the police station. Before that, several heavily armed officials stormed the Miller family and arrested the boy. Jamie peed out of fright, in the car to the area he sobs a lot. The journey occurs forever, also because each episode was filmed in only one take.
In real time it is told how father Eddie (who is played great from one of the creators of the series, Stephen Graham, is played) that his son really killed a girl. He never believed that. « He is a good boy, » said Eddie minutes before. « And I think I’m a good father. » He fights with tears. Eddie is a protective, almost a bit too much. But how do you protect a child who is capable of things that you could never have guessed?
