FISH TANK (2009)

Directed: Andrea Arnold

• Stereotypical look of the working class, with the colloquial language.
• The area in which they live is concrete, shows a sense of escapism to the country, seeing water.
• Female protagonist, fighting against males and the formality that her mother represents of single parents with an exchange of males in her life.
• Outspoken female, confidence and the ability to fight back, the background in which she lives 'dog eat dog world'.
• Represents young people in a 'broken Britain' sympathetic as she didn't choose the environment she was brought into, cultivated this identity.
• Is less exaggerated than Harry Brown, social realism with no torturing etc.
• Can reach to middle and working class, so that an understanding can be made and similarities in defending the life of the working class.
• reflect middle class anxiety, threat to working class to their hegemonic dominance. Main adult characters are seen as working class.