- When I was about eleven years old I was at home from school for a while. My mum rented a video, Billy Elliot, and it’s been my favourite ever since. Many people have seen it because it’s a well known movie.
It’s about a boy in the North of England, who starts to dance ballet. The story takes place in the 1980´s during the minors' strike. Billy's father is a miner and the strike affects their family quite a bit. Billy's mother is dead. Billy, his big brother Tony, his father and his grandmother live under the same roof in a small terraced house. Everybody thinks that Billy is having his boxing class when he actually attends the ballet class. He becomes really good with some extra help from his teacher. - Everything changes one day when Billy's father comes to the ballet class and sees his son there. He realizes that ballet is something that his son really wants to do. So finally he allows Billy to go on an audition in London for the Royal Ballet School. And as you might guess he was admitted and became really good!
I must say this movie really touched me, from the very first time I saw it until now, six years later.
Billy Elliot affected me in the same way that some people do when they have the guts to stand up. This movie shows this, since Billy knew that his father and brother wouldn’t like him to dance ballet and still he sticks to what he wants to do, no matter what they say.
I’m drawn to it, to be honest, because I’ve always had a little crush on Jamie Bell who’s starring Billy. But also because it shows how to make a good movie with a message that affects so many people. I find a movie which moves the audience much more interesting than a movie with good-looking famous actors with absolutely no passion.
I don’t think I’m going to like all the movies I like today in let’s say 20 years. These days new movies are made constantly. But I might watch Harry Potter, maybe even Billy Elliot with my kids when I get older,who knows?
One thing that I’m sure of is that I won’t listen to the music that I’m listening to today in 40 years or less. It’s that kind of music you can’t listen to forever. Not me anyway. I don’t even think they’ll still be making music in 20 years or something, I mean the music I’m listening to. So I’m prepared for what is coming..
