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The Guardian is a left-wing broadsheet newspaper, which means it targets a left-wing, middle-class audience

The inclusion of the phrase '100-strong machete brawl', uses lexis to communicate the idea that there were one hundred machete's to the audience.

Despite the article suggesting that the boys are going to see Blue Story, they are actually underage, so it is very unlikely 

The quote saying the film is 'about love not violence', is included to critique the director's point of view, and is sarcastic. It is supposed to be inflict irony by contradicting the director's words with the actions committed by the gang, which creates a binary opposition.

By naming the project a 'BBC-Funded movie', it creates the idea that they are against the BBC and shows their bias

By including their name, they are pointing out that they are wrong, despite the BBC having no responsibility (at least directly) for the machete brawl.

The information about the machete brawl has come from eye-witnesses and bystanders, which can arguably be wrong or over-dramatised, due to the trauma inflicted by the event. There's also a theory in psychology which suggests that when told something happened (which didn't) people tend to remember this, which supports the idea that the eye-witness reports may be fake or over-dramatised.

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