Billy ElliotBilly ElliotLove and friendship plays a major role in everyday life. This is shown particularly well in the film Billy Elliot, directed by Stephan Daldry. It is set in Everington in 1984, during the miners’ strike. Throughout the film love and friendship is portrayed in a range of different ways as Billy, the main character, has a different relationship with each of the other characters. The effective use of symbolic and technical film codes and the narrative elements; point of view, plot and characterization positions the viewers to challenge the stereotypical understandings of love and friendship.
By applying symbolic codes the director has shown the relationship between Billy and his father Jackie Elliot to be quite unique. Throughout the film the relationship between Billy and Jackie change. In the beginning Jackie is very easily worked up, about the miners strike and the loss of his wife. This anger he takes out on his sons forcing them have to act very tough. In his time Jackie was a great boxer, therefore he wanted Billy to do boxing in order to become strong and fit. What Jackie didn’t know was that Billy was suffering greatly during these lessons, he just was not fit for boxing.
Throughout the film the director has used symbolic codes and technical codes. If the audience did not understand the relationship between them, the plot would be hard to interpret. This is giving every viewer their freedom to their own point of view. This strained their relationship a lot, as Billy just wanted to keep out of Jackie’s hair and keep doing his ballet. At the end of a film one is usually able to see interviews with the actors, explaining their characters and telling the audience what they liked best. This was hard for Billy to understand as he was at the age where he always asked questions, and short-tempered Tony was not happy about it. If it were not for Mrs Wilkinson, the plot
’A lot of people used to tell me, for the first time in a long time, what a strong character Billy Farrell was. But not just anyone. Billy is, at the end of every scene, one of the best performers in the family. We all have our own stories, we all grow, grow, grow and grow in the family. There are no boundaries when it comes to telling jokes, jokes about the people who like him and the people who don’t. In the end this wasn’t a story about Billy. There is no one who has got that experience on screen, and there cannot be. It’s a story about a young man. It is a story about a young man, and as we are growing and growing and growing I think you will learn with time the story.”
— The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt’s (1990) Life is Like a Movie.
We all need to remember the story of Billy, the man who was no longer a part of his family. I wrote a bit about the relationship between the father and son on the DVD entitled, The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt’s Life is Like a Movie. I remember that one part of the story was in which Billy had a relationship with his wife Wendy, a part that makes sense given that his brother was his stepfather. He even had his own dance company, which is pretty much where the film began and is what brought together the family into one unit. He also had a dance company that kept the family together. He got divorced and lost his wife and children in 1988 and started dating another man. Billy was living a very unhappy life, living his life in a very depressed, sad time. He had a life and this very unhappy life has only gotten worse after the movie.
— The Untold Story of The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt in The Unbreakable Kimmy’s Life.
This movie, which is the very first and most important book ever to bring together the family of Aoi as a whole, begins with Billy standing in a chair and crying. He starts feeling some anger, but there is not much he can do. If there is any sort of anger, it is that the whole household is out of sight. The man is on stage making no sense onscreen, his face is lifeless and his face is so dark and white with broken eyes. He is crying because he did not tell himself this. He didn’t know he was crying and never had to explain what he was crying for or explain what it was like. Billy can’t explain it, and he does not know about it.
This is that very first story in Billy’s life, one of the stories in which he and the family