Billy elliot Movie Trailer Analysis- Harm test
Billy Elliot is a film about a young boy who
develops a dream for ballet. Although this is not very welcomed upon because of
the hobby being a girls thing. This boy follows a dream and changes the
perception of a girl’s hobby becoming something for boys to do also. The film
has an ‘angst/coming of age’ theme to it. The trailers length is around about
two and a half minutes long. So it is just enough time to get across what the
story is about.
As far as the trailer shows it doesn't speak or
indicate any form of sexual activity whatsoever. Because the film is mainly
based around a young child in school. A film of this specific category would
not feature any form of sexual goings-on.
Drugs are not mentioned or shown in the trailer
or even briefly spoken about throughout the feature. This is because of the
category also, since the film isn’t even based near drugs whatsoever.
Violence is un-identified in the film trailer,
as there is a brief scene of riot police guarding a bus. Yet the trailer
doesn’t exactly identify the type of violence, unless given more research into
the trailer itself.
The trailer does feature some strong language,
yet it is more based around a non-verbal sense. A small section of the trailer
shows Billy being shown the known cuss sign of two fingers. Otherwise known as
a flipped peace sign. It is a common rude hand gesture that is used to tell
some one to ‘F*** off’. A boy that didn’t look much older than young Billy used
this non-verbal cuss.
No gore is featured in the trailer itself; this
film wouldn’t feature blood because of its intended theme.
Like gore, there isn’t any blood featured in the
trailer.
No murder is featured in this trailer, which is
because of the intended theme still. This wouldn’t be featured in a trailer
such as this.
There is a minor feature of bullying in the
trailer. This is because of the fact that Billy is a boy doing what usually is
a girl’s sport. So bullying would be featured in this trailer, as a show of
difficultness between Billy and what he wants to do as his dream.
This trailer is based around the 1980’s so there
is an extreme sense of realness throughout. It shows the hard times of the 80’s
in the background of the film.
This film trailer does feature discrimination.
Linking to the violence, the bus scene features a bit of discrimination because
of the miners’ strike that was around the eighties, and from research further,
this was around the ‘Thatcher years’ when life was basically a living hell for
the towns and villages with a mining or steelworks job within the towns. So the
scene in the trailer shows many men, yelling at a large bus/coach, giving vague
cusses and pointing like they are accusing. Another bit that shows
discrimination is Billy doing the ballet. He does receive a small amount of
discrimination and sexism towards the fact that he is doing what his father would
call a ‘girly sport’.
In conclusion I give this film the certificate
of 12A because it is showing small life difficulties, plus the loss of Billy’s
mother, which children under the ages of 12 would probably find slightly
confusing. Also any audiences under 12 wouldn’t know of the discriminations and
minor non-verbal strong language.
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