Billy Elliot

I thought that Billy Elliot was a really good movie. I enjoyed the actor who played Billy because he has so much passion for dancing and it was entertaining watching him dance with such enthusiasm, especially when he was jumping on the bed during the opening credits of the movie, when he was dancing after Mrs. Wilkinson had come by his house and he was mad at his brother Tony, and when he was dancing in the gym on Christmas when he father walked in on him and Michael dancing. This movie was a bit of a culture shock in the beginning because it was very difficult to understand their English accents, so much so that I had to watch the movie with the subtitles on. It was also a bit of a shock how much each of the characters in the movie cursed and dropped the f-bomb. I didn't understand the background of the movie involving the strike and the miners, so the scenes where the mob was calling people "scabs" and attacking the buses really confused me. I thought it was funny that Mrs. Wilkinson told Billy to join her dancing lesson rather than give her the keys to the gym and stand there waiting, and I think it's great that Mrs. Wilkinson believed there to be such great potential in Billy to be a dancer that she was willing to do everything to could in order to making him the best and getting him into the best dancing school. I'm really glad Billy was able to get into the school because it would have been HORRIBLE if he didn't get in because he punched the other boy in the face. I wish they could have shown Billy dancing in Swan Lake when he was older more rather than just ending right as he is about to dance on stage. It would have been great to see his father and Tony's reactions, as well as Michael's to Billy being a professional dancer and not seeing him for so many years. Overall, I thought this was a very touching film, and I even recommended my family watch it.