It feels a little bit "This Is Britain", but better. "Fish Tank" is more calm and calm. Mia grew up in that environment, full of swear words, bad grades, no friends, and making trouble everywhere... These adjectives are normal for a boy, like "This Is England". But Mia is a girl, her family is full of women, mother, sister, are very lonely. From the point of view of the Chinese countryside: if there is no man in the family, it feels like there is no backbone. And Mia's only hobby is dancing, and her favorite thing to do is to go to a secluded empty room to dance.
What impressed me more about this movie was poverty. Mia's family is really poor, it feels poorer than the average Chinese family. For example, she is still using the outdated walkman cd player to accompany her. She can't access the Internet at home, so she has to go to an Internet cafe (but this is not a standard for measuring rich and poor)... But I am surprised that there are such slums in the UK. . Although I haven't been to the UK, but I've been to Berlin, it should be no worse than the UK, and there are no slums. Of course there are in East Berlin, but I haven't had the chance to see them.
So how hopeless a child growing up in a western slum should be. In the scene at the beginning of the movie, Mia attacked a group of girls who were dancing together, and then came back to practice on her own, playing hip-hop with a strong sense of rhythm... I suddenly felt that this movie was really good. For these children, I can only meet them on the street and feel their chirping vitality in the car, but I have no way of understanding their own stories, their difficulties and hopes. And this movie gave me a chance to see the lives of their generation. Really, every generation has every generational problem. And the movie is a wonderful creation that even opens up the age gap.
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