"QuadroPhenia"

Quadrophenia

The movie tells us a story of a young man called Jimmy. He lives in a small town, in England and he’s a MOD, sort of street gang.
It seems he has problems with his parents because he's lost his job in an Advertising Agency. One day, he found out that a school friend of him was himself a ROCKER.
One day, one of them has been attacked by the Rocker’s when he was with his girlfriend, in the street because his scooter was down.
To revange them, they have pursued the rockers. They have found one of them. It was Jimmy’s friend.

MOD’s and ROCKER’s “SUBCULTURES”

The Mod’s wear black taylor-made suits and black ties, drive italian motor scooters Lambretta or Vespa. They listen Soul music, Jamaican Ska, etc..The MOD’s means modernist. They like the future, the technique, what’s new, in music, fashion, they see french and italian films and they take anphetamines when they go to the clubs. Drugs give them “the energy “ to resist dancing all night long.

The Rockers, another gang, use grease in their hair, wear leather jackets and jeans. They ride Triumph motorcycles. While MOD’s represent the future, The Rockers they represent the after war period mentality, more conservative, they prefer Rockn’Roll music. They represent the worker’s class. They go the “caffs”, they drink and they organize motorcycle races.
Mod’s and Rocker’s, they hate each other, because their life’s point of view are totally different. They are totally antagonic. They were considered as the most important subcultures at the time.

Nowadays we still have reflexes on our young subcultures. We do have the Heavy Metall bands that have inherited the principe of the rockers and the groups of Hip Hop, pop music and electronic music have similtaries with the Mod’s.

Antonio Barros

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