Quadrophenia

 In Quadrophenia then director portrays these teenagers as young individuals who don't really have an idea on how the outcome of their future will be so instead they just live in the moment. Youth identity in this film is all about reputation and belonging to a specific identity hence why we see a gang culture within this movie between the 'Mods' and 'Rockers'. Each gang had their way of talking, dressing, speaking, etc. You had to be either one otherwise you would not be considered so therefore ones existence was irrelevant.

However these teenagers had no clue who they really were as they just found themselves following the norms of their gangs and inflicted them in their lifestyles, the main character Jimmy experiences a hard time when he realizes that nothing positive seems to come from his lifestyle. We see a great misunderstanding between immy and his parents maybe this suggesting that there is a massive gap between teenagers and their parents as they fail to comprehend the lifestyle of their teenage son or daughter.

Jimmy and his friends get up to no good by breaking into pharmacies, riding on their scooters all night, smoking, drinking, taking drugs, going parties, having sex, etc. Could this be a visual representation of teenagers? or is it the opinion of the director of this movie? Considering this is a movie made around the 60's and 70's could this be that teenagers were like this then but have changed since then? As the David Buckingham theory suggests that youth identity is forever changing so there for it can not be defined.