Fast Girls

‘Fast Girls’ is a film about a team of Olympic sprinters that are brought together to participate in the 4 by 100m relay team. The film is centred around two main characters, Shania and Lisa. Shania’s character is based in a lower class area of London. She lives with her sister and her aunt in a flat. Shania’s mother passed away and her father is not featured in the movie at all. In contrast, Lisa is a wealthy, upper class athlete that has trained her whole life, due to her father being a past Olympian. This is where Shania and Lisa contrast at first, as they are both on completely different sides of the spectrum in terms of wealth, but their similarities are quickly shown when the movie displays both of the girls’ determination to be an athlete.

‘Fast Girls’ displays youth culture in a much more positive light than the likes of films such as ‘My Brother the Devil’ or older films such as ‘A Taste of Honey’. ‘Fast Girls’ shows the journey of a poor/lower class girl trying to become an Olympic athlete; this contrasts to films such as ‘A Taste of Honey’ because the main character isn’t presented with a problem, they have a goal to reach which follows with some problems, whereas ‘A Taste of Honey’ presents the main character with a problem and the film entails her journey of dealing with her problem.