Go Watch // Quadrophenia

"Mod is youth subculture of the early to mid-1960s, Focused on fashion and music. The subculture has its roots in a small group of London-based stylish young men in the late 1950s who were termed modernists because they listened to modern jazz."

Quadrophenia By Franc Roddam, is a highly influential youth drama film following the highly notorious mods and rockers subculture of the 1960s. Produced and scored by classic mod-affiliated rock band the who, the film follows Jimmy, a mod living in 1965 London, who by day works as a mail-boy at a publishers and at night parties and drops pills with his friends all members of a mod gang, united by a taste in suits and R&B. The film not only works as a hedonistic, portrait of one of the most celebrated subcultures in the world, but also as a commentary of youth identity and materialism. There are many iconic moments within the film from the infamous "We Are The Mods!" scene to the ending upon the white cliffs, this film is exemplary of how to make a high quality youth drama, a film I believe anyone who has ever been or still is a teenager should watch.