Favourite movie

Im going to talk about one of my favourite movies: Billy Elliot; this movie is from England, was recorded in 2000 and directed by Stephen Daldry; Billy Elliot is included it in the category of drama.
In 2000 won a lot of awards like: British Independent Film Awards, Best director, Best Newcomer –Jamie Bell-, etc; awards from countries such as United Kingdom, Norway and USA

The movie starts with a boy of eleven years old called Billy Elliot -played by Jamie Bell- who lives in a litle town in the northwest of England, called Durham in 1984. This place is a “labor camp” and the base of financial support it’s a Mine. Billy’s dad –Jackie Elliot- and older brother –Tony Elliot- work there.
Billy’s life is goes between home, school and box, but for Billy his real passion is dance, thus he starts practicing in secrecy, for his father and old brother this is a shame – a men practicing ballet-; but Billy keep trying to purse his dream.
After a while Jackie Elliot realizes the true talent of his son, so he decides to help him financially so he can study dance at The Royal Castle in London. Ten years later, Billy Elliot will be the main dancer on the Swan Lake.

I like this movie because it has a strong plot, that reflects the socio-political context and the values of the conservative society of England, especially in the area of gender and homosexuality.
Billy Elliot represents the “the breakdown” of the stereotypes and the traditional view of the gender roles –what it’s made for men or women-. He allows us to see how the prejudices act, when some people get out of what the "rules" sent as correct; this kind of movie makes us wonder, what is really right and who has the right to marginalize us for being different?, that it’s something that we have to consider.

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