Cubs is a short film made in 2006 created by Tom Harper, this shortfilm, sheds light on gun crime, youth gangs, and friendships. The entire film is a metaphor/allegory for these group of kids. The name of the film "Cubs" automatically makes the viewer associate the film with young adults or children, which is true because we are presented with a number of young children trying to be accepted into what is thought of as a gang. However this initiation into this gang is one that then makes film a metaphor, because to be able to join the gang, one must kill a cub fox. This protrays an idea of circular karma, because the gang leader says to the protagonist "dont want you to get nick'd like you brother", meaning this brother had the same initiation and things turned out bad for him. By hunting a fox, it presents the idea as this gang being a pack of dogs, or wolves, a group that stays together which are extremely tight. At the end of the shortfilm the protagonist breaks the forth wall as if to say what have I done.
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