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''Neds'' (2010) is a feature film directed by Peter Mullan, with dialogue in Scottish English and Glasgow patter. The film tells the story of John McGill (Conor McCarron), a teenager growing up in 1970s Glasgow, Scotland. The story line follows John's involvement with his city's ned culture and the consequences of it on his teenage years. ==Plot== ''Neds'' is a dark coming-of-age film that follows the story of John McGill, a young boy growing up in 1970s Glasgow. John is a brilliant student who excels in his studies at school, but his studious nature often comes into conflict with his family's working-class background and gang-riddled neighbourhood. John's mother is a part-time hospital worker and his father is an abusive alcoholic who works as a tool maker. His older brother, Benny, is the leader of a neighbourhood gang called the Young Car-D. On a visit his Auntie Beth, who now lives in New York, encourages John to leave Scotland to pursue opportunities there when he is older. The film opens with a leaving ceremony that marks John's transition from primary school to secondary school. On his final day of primary school, John is accosted by Canta, a local bully and member of the Hardridge Paka gang who intimidates John and threatens to beat him up when he moves to secondary school. John relays the details of the encounter to his brother, Benny, who then enlists the help of his fellow gang members to track down and assault Canta as punishment. Once John joins secondary school everything goes well, apart from his not being in the top class. He is then told by the headmaster that if he proves to be different from his brother (who assaulted two teachers during the previous year before being expelled) then he will move up a class by Christmas time, which he does. Since John lacks a social life and friends, his teacher advises him to attend a summer camp for children with disabilities, where he meets a middle-class boy called Julian. One day he accidentally breaks one of Julian's father's records and is forbidden to see Julian again. While walking home, a group of youths, from Young Car-D, threaten to mug him until they realize who his brother is, at which point they leave him alone and even ask him to join them, as well as giving him vodka and cigarettes, which he accepts. This is the start of his downward spiral. Once school starts, it has become clear that John has changed his ways for the worse – graffitiing the desks, being impolite to teachers and going for cigarettes in the toilets at breaktime. At one point he gets caught up in a fight between two gangs and obtains a knife which had been kicked under the door of the toilet cubicle in which he is hiding during the fight. Subsequently, during a weekend he gets back at Julian's family for rejecting him by throwing a bag full of fireworks through their window while they are having a meal. He then goes to a social club, where members of the Car-D gang force two boys from a rival gang called the Krew out. They come back later and throw a bicycle through the function room window, urging the Car-D to give chase up to the edge of their territory, where they escape via a walkway. John gives chase and ends up running right into the rest of the Krew and their leader who then chase him. He pushes his way into an Irish woman's home to escape. She shelters him temporarily. It transpires that the woman is the mother of the boy who threw the bicycle. Between 1972 and 1974 John becomes more deeply involved in gang feuds. He slits a boy's throat in a gang fight and hides the blade. Returning home he finds that the police are there and after hiding from them, on their departure John learns that his brother has been arrested as a suspect for the stabbing. The next day John finds that his brother's bail has been set at £15 by the Sheriff court. He robs a bus driver at knife point to raise the money but fails to pay the sum in time. His violent lifestyle continues and while out for a walk with Claire, one of the girls from the gang, he spots a now isolated and weak Canta. He confronts him about the bullying incident years before and the encounter ends with him knocking Canta to the floor and dropping a stone slab on him, causing him brain damage. John becomes increasingly confrontational, throwing a glass bottle at a passing police officer as he hangs out with the Young Car-D in a park. The gang ostracize him for attracting police attention. At home his father is drunkenly abusive to his mother so John later beats him round the head with a frying pan. His mother tells John to get out of the house and he is then forced to take refuge in the machine room of the lifts in a block of high rise flats. He survives by stealing doorstep deliveries of milk and bread to the flats. One day John finds the gate to the boiler room locked and, after sniffing glue, goes for a walk to a statue of Jesus Christ, who John urges to come down jokingly, he then has a vision that he does so but the figment of Jesus ends up beating him for his choice of life. The next morning, his sober dad finds him and tells him to go home. John's father asks him to put him out of his misery and end his life. John goes to his room and prepares two knives which he tightly straps to both hands. He goes downstairs where his father is urinating in a bottle. He asks John to wait until he is asleep. John wanders the streets, stripped to the waist and in a self-destructive mood. He comes across the rival gang and viciously attacks one of them, injuring him badly. John is then pursued by the other gang members and is badly beaten in turn. Members of "Young car-D" then spot him and fight off his attackers only to have John turn on them after getting to his feet. Injured, he returns home to the room where his father is asleep. Unable to go through with killing his father, he collapses on top of him and falls asleep . He chooses to change his ways and returns to school, attending a remedial class, wanting no further involvement in the gang. The class goes on a field trip to a safari park and their minibus breaks down. He thinks the teachers have abandoned him with Canta and he decides to leave the van, walking hand-in-hand with Canta through a pack of lions; the lions leave them alone as they walk off into the distance. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Neds (film)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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