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Billy Elliot Essay
Course: Telecommunication Engineering (ICT51015)
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University: TAFE New South Wales
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Cara Horn
Through representing human experiences in texts it encourages responders to
challenge their perspective on humanity and the human condition. The power of
storytelling such as textual representations of individual and collective experiences
allows the audience to gain a better understanding of complex human qualities and
emotions within themselves or in the wider world. Stephan Daldry’s film Billy Elliot
explores the highly parochial and patriarchal society of the Northern England town of
Everington in the midst of 1984 during a mining strike which allows the audience to see
the complications Billy faces. Daldry highlights Billy’s struggle to overcome adversity
and focus on his determination to follow his dreams. The film reveals how the loss of
loved ones can either divide or unite those suffering from the loss, due to the patriarchal
environment the Elliot family are divided by the loss of the mother in the family. The film
explores how an individual’s passion can lead to growth and transformation for both
themself and the people they are around. Daldry enhances the audience's awareness of
the complexity of human experiences in their power to both isolate and unifies
individuals and communities by adding richness, texture, and nuance to the human
experiences he depicts.
Daldry’s film challenges the audience with a compelling exploration of the negative and
isolating impacts of the unresolved grief process of reconciling loss. The death of a
family member can strengthen familial connections however, in Billy Elliot the loss of the
mother causes the Elliot family to feel isolated while going through the process of
unresolved grief. Daldry highlights how the citizens of Everington's way of expression is
through anger, this is represented when Billy is playing the diegetic piano melody while
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