Week 5 Reflective Post

This week we looked at how the timeline of British social realism has changed and stayed the same over the past couple of decades. Generally the themes of British social realism movies is linked with violence, drugs and gangs. The technology wasn't that great back in the 1960's so the editing and camera conventions was very limited to what was available. We also looked at the news about Britain in the past to pain a better insight of the lives people went through during the olden times and how different it is now.

We also looked at and analysed Billy Elliot. Billy Elliot is an iconic British social realism movie, that we looked and analysed in depth. To summarise the story of Billy Elliot: it was set during the miners' strike (1984-1985) and the main character is a young boy, who wishes to become a ballet dancer, even to the objection of his family. The location of Billy Elliot is in a rather poor area, and shows the lives of many working and lower class people in the hierarchy of society. The main moral of the story sends a message to people that you should never give up on something that you really enjoy and wish to do. This is shown through Billy Elliot; even though his dad and brother hated the idea of him becoming a ballet dancer, they later saw the talent and potential that he had, which amazed and shocked them.