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"Consider how the police are depicted in 'The Blue Lamp' and 'Billy Elliot'".
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"Consider how the police are depicted in 'The Blue Lamp' and 'Billy Elliot'". I shall begin my essay by studying several scenes in the film 'Billy Elliot', which was made in 2000, directed by Stephen Daldry. The main focus of this particular film is the 1984 miners' strike, a defining point in British history. Billy Elliot is a young boy of age eleven. He lives in a small and confined north-eastern mining district, where the majority of workers are currently involved in a violent strike as a form of forceful protestation. Billy lives with his elderly grandmother, as well as his older brother Tony and his father who are both connected with their striking miners maintaining a picket line against the strike-breakers. The first significant shot in the film, providing us with our initial view of the police, consists of Billy discovering that his grandmother has strayed out of the house they...
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