Good

Rating: 8/10 (6 November 2013)

Billy Elliot is about a young boy who struggles with generally male sports such as boxing but finds a unexpected love in ballet. Billy must face obstacles such as his father and older brother not supporting him at all and having to have private lessons with his dance teacher behind his fathers back as he forbids him to take classes. This movie is very good how it challenges gender stereotypes such as only girls can do ballet and that all male ballet dancers are gay. When his father walks in on Billy showing his best friend one of his dances he realises how talented his son is in dance he goes back to work as a miner. This was hard for Billy's Dad as he was on strike and if he returned to work he would be known as scum. Billy's Father needed to go back so he would be able to fund for Billy to go to London to audition for the Royal School of Ballet. Billy Elliot is very inspirational as it promotes the fact that you shouldn't change what you enjoy doing just because of what everyone else says about it.