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Genetically modified death mice, suspiciously codependent horticulturists, and attention-seeking activists... eh, we get it. You've got to make your own fun in the suburbs.
Transcript
- 00:01
No white teeth is chock full of characters who don't
- 00:05
quite fit in predominantly white london but it also features
- 00:08
a more traditional middle class british family the chawl fins
- 00:12
and what could be more normal than a middle class
- 00:15
british family in london Even if the mom's maternal instincts
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- 00:18
run amok and the dad happens teo genetically manipulate mice
- 00:23
Okay well maybe normal isn't the right word We'll start
- 00:26
with the mother joyce Her day job is poured a
- 00:29
culture roll expert where she caters to the needs of
- 00:32
helpless plants but her professional instincts spill into her desire
- 00:37
to tend to the needs of her sons to warrant
- 00:39
all that helpless or plant like And when mila and
- 00:43
irish show up at the child fins placed millet gets
- 00:46
caught in this web of attention and affection That's the
- 00:49
cleaning people come thursday Well the father marcus has some
- 00:53
obsessions of his own but rather than focusing on care
- 00:56
independency his big thing is a whole bunch of very
- 01:00
little things Mice His work is focused on genetically manipulating
- 01:05
the dna of mice which ultimately produces his claim to
- 01:08
fame The future mouse coming soon to adult swim marcus
- 01:13
genetic modifications the future mouse can grow cancerous tumors at
- 01:17
predictable times and even die we're guessing he probably didn't
- 01:21
get these mice to sign any kind of waiver Well
- 01:23
marcus work is about more than just making amounts miserable
- 01:27
it's about eliminating randomness so that people could be the
- 01:30
directors of their own fate Of course anyone who's seen
- 01:33
jurassic park knows that eliminating randomness through genetic manipulation isn't
- 01:38
the best idea of all time At least marcus had
- 01:41
the good sense to work with mice instead of velociraptors
- 01:45
Last but not least white teeth also features one of
- 01:47
the chop and sons joshua well joshua goes to school
- 01:51
with millet and fiery and has a bit of a
- 01:52
crush on ira All three kids get caught in a
- 01:55
smoking rate at school and the principal decides that the
- 01:58
best punishment is for ira and mila to study at
- 02:01
josh's house which as punishments go sounds pretty good Teo
- 02:04
love struck josh However when i re in mill i've
- 02:07
come to casa chalfen Things don't go is josh might
- 02:10
have hoped millet becomes the new target of joyce's maternal
- 02:14
instincts and iranians of working for marcus Well josh had
- 02:17
always had a good relationship with his parents But this
- 02:20
new lack of attention drives him to join a radical
- 02:23
animal rights group that protests against his father's Work out
- 02:28
hitting him where it hurts Well as we see with
- 02:30
the cha finn's being a quote normal family unquote is
- 02:34
definitely no guarantee that your family is going to be
- 02:36
normal unless raising radical animal rights activists is the new 00:02:40.915 --> [endTime] hot trend in british parenting
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