Ill Manors: film review

Ill Manors in urban crime drama set in east London, it is directed and written by Ben Drew well know as Plan B when it comes down to the musical industry.  
The film successfully captures London's hidden underground that involves the more gloomy side of things such as drugs, prostitution and gangs. Within the first hour or so the film highlights certain key conventions that represent the lower class of London, how they resort to living a life of crime and drugs to maintain some sort of routine. 
The opens glues the audience to the screen by using a sudden rush of cinematography and music to really capture this lifestyle to it's fullest, the use of underground music helps highlight and set the scene for the audience. Ben Drew uses two well known actors to maintain some sort of image for the film however majority of the actors are not professional. 
Drew sets out to capture the spotlight on those who have no purpose other than selling drugs, with no sense of identification and community.
The first couple of minutes we come to an understanding that there's a heavy obsession with their phones, this represents the huge phone number quantity  of customers for their drug business, half the story line focuses on how without their phone, they have no purpose to carry on with their life and how they have no other options to create money for themselves. They have become fixated on the idea that drug dealing is the the only alternative.

The film follows a sequence of patterns such as humiliation and power.
If begins with young Jake who takes £20 off a mate, who stole the money from his mother, to buy drugs off Marcel. Marcel takes the money but refuses to sell him the drug unless Jake takes to humiliate his mate by beating him up. Much to his shame and humiliation Jake successfully complies 
Marcel's orders and see's himself become part of a gang. 
Marcel himself is also humiliated as just before had been terrorised by con Kirby, telling him to strip while being held at gunpoint. To continue the pattern, Kirby is also humiliated by his own trainee Chris, a drug dealer, 
While all of this takes place, well known drug dealer Ed takes on to terrorised a crack addict Michelle, selling her out for the night to a numerous amount of sleazy men to pay for his stolen phone. This particular point within the film highlights how male power and domination is still a problem.