A feel good movie

Rating: 8/10 (12 March 2001)

I liked this movie. It made me laugh and eventually made me cry a little. It deals with everything from how we deal with the death of a close one to how we let him go. It also deals with achieving our ambitions against the backdrop of an hostile environment. In short it deals with everything we go through in our lives and do it good.
Jamie Bell is excellent as the hero and so is everyone else, though I found Julie Walters a little bit irritating. The story itself shift well between Billy Elliot and the backdrop story of the miners strikes in England in 1984. The rhythm of the film is good and it is helped by the music of that period.
One last thing. Is the film a gay one or not? The makers of the film left it deliberately vague. There are some hints that Billy is gay and there are some hints which contradict this assumption. It definitely in the eye of the beholder and any interpretation can be correct. The reason that many see Billy as gay is because he is an outsider and has to deal with an hostile surroundings,a feeling many gay peoples can identify with. Whether he is gay or not, is not important to the fact that this is a movie that make you feel good.
Go see the movie,you will not regret.