How the film Bill Elliot Explores on adversity, relationships and pursuit of dreams
In developing the film Bill Elliot, the composer Stephen Daldry explored three significant aspects of human life which include the struggle with the adversity, relationships and pursuit for dreams. In the film, the composer uses one character by the name Jack through the family. Poverty is one serious challenge that struck the mining community, a factor which shapes the adventure of the film and thus creating the path to explore the struggle with adversity. The theme of exploring for trouble is ventured into this film through this film in many ways. The first scenario is through Billy’s family. Daldry shows how a scene where Jackie smashes the mother’s piano for firewood. The script acts as the most effective in this film since the family is struggling wi9th poverty as the mother had already passed away. The situation had been brought about by the minor’s strike. Even though the piano meant a lot for the family, they had no option a job which displays more clearly how desperate they were for adversity. The scenario of the family sitting by the fire during Christmas dinner presents how unhappy they were. They all upset at the current situation that was facing them
The composer explores the pursuit of dreams through Billy as he ventures on to become of the ballet dancers something he had desired for a while his dream of becoming a ballet dancer. Billy faces a lot of challenges upon his initiation into adolescence. The main threat was posed mainly to the idea of standing up for his dream and his own beliefs despite his economic background and expectations of the society. We can see from the movie that just like Billy, some of the people who were aiming for something better are the minors. This theme is also displayed where there are shots of montage that are parallel, but they are opposing. Children are also on the grinding process of juxtaposing themselves against the ballet dancers who are young in terms of age thus displaying how each group is trying to express itself differently showing the efforts they made to attain what they were aiming. Therefore, each scene reveals how every group was putting efforts to achieve its dreams.
The theme of relationships also revealed out in the film, specifically through the father-son link. We can see two generations conflicting due to clash in terms of the roles they hold, which differ due to the different views they had about life, the future as well as gender roles. “Lads do football, boxing or wrestling –not friggin ballet!” is one of the complains raised by Jack on learning that his son is on the process of pursuing the dream of achieving ballet dancing. Thus, being brave enough to show how talented he was in ballet dancing was the only reason that made Billy’s father Jackie change his mind to support his son. The scenario indicates that the father-son relationship was powerful as compared to that of Jackie and Billy. Jackie, on the other hand, finds it difficult to understand the relationship between the kinds of a career that Billy is trying to nurture and his gender. She only understands that wrestling, football and boxing are the sports that Billy is supposed to engage in. Thus, there is struggle by Billy to make Jackie know that the relationship of his gender with what he wants to do should not be a concern.