Mrs Wilkinson is a disappointed woman who carries her cigarette like a weapon. He also learns to make hard decisions and achieves a better relationship with his family. Through the movie Billy develops from a boy trapped by gender roles and afraid of the new and unknown to a boy that takes risks to fulfil his dream and is not afraid anymore. It seems that every person in this film has an expectation from Billy, depending on his or her social status and personal experiences. It seems that Billy as a “child” still keeps the right to miss his mother who has died and he has the right to talk about her. The men in his family do not show emotions and are quite brutal and violent, but Billy manages to show feelings through dance and when he is forced into confrontation, he is courageous and stubborn.īilly is the youngest member of the Elliot’s household. It is obvious that he is not the one to give a punch. He only follows the customary path of the real man because he is trying to fulfil his father’s expectations as well as the expectations of the society.
He has inherited boxing gloves from his grandfather and he is expected to do boxing and become a miner. He is a sensitive, tolerant, determined, stubborn, courageous and single-minded boy. The story begins in the early autumn and stretches throughout the winter and early spring.īilly is a twelve years old boy who attends a public elementary school. Ne of these houses and has to share room with his big brother, Tony. Billy’s neighbourhood mainly consists of brick houses without gardens, and working class people. The conditions are tough, and they have to burn their mother’s piano to get wood. The father and brother of Billy work in the mines and are a part of a strike. This period of time was called the Thatcher era and the rise of unemployment was specific for this time. The film takes place in a fictitious town of Everington, in the North of England, namely the Durham County in 1984-1985. When Billy is presented with the opportunity to audition for the royal ballet school in London he has to decide whether to convince his father and go London or continue his life eventually ending up as a miner just like his dad and brother. Hudson, the ballet teacher, who has discovered Billy’s talent gives him lessons in private, without any cost. When his dad finds out he denies Billy to dance, but Mrs.
Billy has to hide the ballet dancing from his father, with good reason. When the local ballet dancers start practicing in the same venue as he does, he develops an interest in the dancing and soon joins the ballet group. Billy doesn’t love boxing and isn’t very good either. But still Billy’s father manages to let Billy go to boxing lessons. His father and brother work in the mines and are working class people. Billy Elliot is a film about a young boy who discovers and starts dancing ballet.
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