Awesome! Much more than a dance movie

Rating: 10/10 (10 November 2016)

What a moving, cute, funny, political, sensitive movie! Since the very first scene sequence spectators notice that this will not be an ordinary film. Cinematography is great, it is perfectly edited, actors do an amazing job (Jamie Bell is awesome in the leading role, but how not to also highlight Gary Lewis's performance as his father, or Julie Walters's as his ballet teacher, or Jean Heywood's as grandma?). It is much more than a dance film, as people usually refer themselves to it. It deals with many complex elements together, such as English working class, British politics under Thatcherism (with miners on strike and violent police repression), complicated family relations, gender conventional roles, sexuality, prejudice, cosmopolitanism vs. provincialism, and boxing as the archetypal lower class sport.