Outstanding

Rating: Null/10 (25 October 2002)

I was pretty shocked to see some bad reviews about this movie on this site. I think the people who gave this movie a bad review missed the whole point of this movie. Have you ever dreamed about something - I don't know like a excellent job, or the lottery or that girl or guy you've wanted since high school. That was the essence of this movie. Billy Elliot wanted nothing more than to dance. Granted some people said that some of the dance numbers Billy was doing went that good. You have to look at the dance as a whole. Dancing in not only what you do with your feet and body. It's what goes through your soul that is the important thing. When you wake up in the morning and dancing is first thing that you think about - then you need to be a dancer. Billy's every waking minute was filled with dance. Yeah, maybe he used it to escape his horrible upbringing. But this only fuels the fire further on.
I know this feeling, coming from a totally different background from Billy. I came from a very privilege background, but that didn't stop the fire in my body that I felt for the dance. Father and mother wanted something else for their son, but I wanted something totally different.
And so it goes, Billy wanted to dance because of that fire in his body, he went away to this school and in the end danced the lead in Swan Lake, with his brother and father watching from the audience with awe and pride.
Excellent......