If you want a great experience, my advice to you is; go watch Stephen Daldry’s movie ‘Billy Elliot’. I promise you, that it will be worth it. You will find quandaries like homosexuality, poverty, taboos, greatness and fiascos.
The movie takes place in North East England in the year 1984 during the great coal miner strike. Billy is eleven and living in Durham, with his father, big brother and grandmamma. His mother has recently died.
The town is a mining town, and both the father and the brother, Tony, is taking part in the strike, this results in that the little family is living under poor circumstances.
Billy is practicing boxing, as the father wishes, but as we follow Billy we discover his interest for ballet, simultaneously as he does.
He now has to fight on his own, against others’ prejudices, in a world where dancing equals homosexuality.
Billy’s father is tired. His sick of the strike which takes their money, and slowly destroys the last piece of hope left in the doomed city. His oldest son, Tony, is very engaged in the strike. That’s his way to keep himself from giving it all up.
Billy is naive, brave and not yet ruined by the harsh environment. He is really not that good at boxing, but he tries. His friend Michael wants Billy to be himself and quit boxing, because he knows that boxing is not the sport Billy wants to practice.
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