Billy Elliot - "A natural film"

Rating: 5/10 (23 March 2007)

Billy Elliot - Review
The movie Billy Elliot" is about a boy whose dream is to become a great dancer. The title is the same as the name of the main character.
I think the actor who plays "Billy" has played the role of him full of emotions. He and the actor of the father play their role seriously, too. And they show a realistic relationship between father and son and how they respect and love each other. The message of the film is at first that it is not impossible to realise your dream and that a family is very important in your life and that they have to support each other at any time in anything. So the music is also important, because it express emotions and feelings ("Ups and Downs") in the movie as the same like the whole dancing scenes that shows how Billy feels in any situation at a moment. There are a lot of different camera movements in this movie; I think almost all of them.
At the end the film was in my opinion in some parts boring and you don't really understand the context about the "strike" and about the relationship to his school-friend, who was in my view "gay". But it was very successful to show the problems and relationship in the family and between father and son. So I think this film is recommendable for people who like to watch "family-dramas" and movies about dancing.
I give the film 3 of 5 stars.