Colour bursts heighten emotional spikes. If Billy Elliot suffers at all as a movie experience, it is that first timer Daldry's inexperience shows in the number of cliches he employs. It is also just too obvious when he wants to manipulate us into a specific emotional response. A little more subtlety and the movie might have emerged as a minor classic. Yet it still entertains and uplifts.
Audiences are pleased.
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