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Switchblade
Film · short · 16 min
This short film covers the struggles that the youth experience through peer pressure, including knife crime. Made in partnership with The James Brindley Foundation, KIC Radio, and Aldridge School.
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> It is a very real thing, as every Indian knows and hears and sees
How do you know it to be a problem? Governments love to overstate the seriousness of things for political leverage. Many people make incorrect conclusions from what they hear and see in pop culture.
> Hey, it even plays a part in Indian movies
If this is what you mean by "know and hear and see", then I think you need more evidence. Movie production culture (from Hollywood to Bollywood) loves to latch onto political and criminal tropes regardless of how true they are. For example, there are a number of laws passed by US congress and state governments that can be directly traced back to exaggerations in Hollywood movies. The banning of Switchblade knives can be traced back to Hollywood incorrectly depicting them as a popular tool for mafia activity. The banning of gun suppressors can be directly traced back to exaggerated Hollywood depictions of their effectiveness. Basically, you shouldn't trust everything you see in movies. "Black money" is a great narrative vehicle that is stuck in the Indian pop culture memeome, so it makes sense that Indian movies reference it.