Life teaches all of us

Rating: 8/10 (7 December 2003)

Various aspects of life are shown in this excellent film, on one hand, the problems of miners in Northern Ireland, many of them still fighting for their rights and many also accused of being communist, no matter if they are not. The other is the reality at home of a father miner, a "machismo" typical of Latin American countries prevailing in that society, which is supposedly more advanced culturally and economically than Latin America. Against the vocation of children is very little what parents can do, and Billy is the prove, he insisted on and persuaded his father and even his extreme conservative brother to leave him become a ballet dancer, and he succeeded.