Short Term 12 Themes

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Short Term 12 is an independent film that was released in 2013 and directed by Destin Daniel Cretton. The film takes place in a group home and shows the focuses on the journey of Grace who was physically, mentally, and sexually abused as a young child by her father and her boyfriend/fiancé Mason who grew up as a “punk kid” in foster care. The two put attempt to put their own lives aside when they both work at the group home in an attempt to better the lives of the troubled youth they work with at the home. The film maker in Short Term 12 was trying to communicate the problems the adolescents experience, and also how problems from our youth such as abuse can be carried into our future if we don’t take care of ourselves and the issue. Grace in …show more content…

He was sent to jail when she was young because of all the abuse. Now years later, she is notified that her father is being released from jail and Grace’s world comes crashing down around her. She struggles with her pregnancy and she also struggles with the adolescents at the group home. Specifically, Jessica, because she can relate to her the most. Because she never had proper counseling and didn’t address how she was feeling, it proved to be too much for her. There are multiple themes in Short Term 12. The themes that the film is concerned with is abuse in teens/children. The majority of the teens/children that were in the group home experienced some type of abuse at some point in their lives. Many of them were placed in the group home because of the abuse they inured. Pregnancy is another theme in the …show more content…

The scenes in the group home were accurate to what you would see in a group home. The group home itself seemed to be cramped and cluttered with not a lot of space. All the rooms in the group home were quite small, the living space was also quite small. The home did have a yard for the teens/children to play. It wasn’t the cleanest place but it wasn’t too gross and un clean either. The rules they set such as teens with a history of self harm weren’t allowed to shut their doors. The film wasn’t bright and cheerful, the color tones all seemed to be de-saturated and cool. There were colors, but nothing vibrant. This set the mood for the film serious. A time when the film seemed bright, and happy was when Mason was home with his foster parents and foster brothers and sisters celebrating. This scene in the film seemed to be more bright, colorful, and full of joy. Other than the boundaries between Grace and Jess in the film the film accurately portrayed what actually happens in a group

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