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First half of film review

Oct 21st, 2014
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  1. So I've been sitting here itching my bum and I can't decide if I like Fish tank or not, it's a slice of social realism brightly colored in every pallet from the dirt spectrum and follows the ball of misery and hiccups that Katie Jarvis's character Mia Williams calls a life. Now I could say a lot of things about this misguided young girl and how shallow I found her acting, but really the fact that she hasn't made a film since speaks for itself. I found it odd how Andrea Arnold was trying to use the extremes of both coins, IE showing Mia to be a rough and tough girl only stopping to headbutt another girl on her way to becoming a delicate and sensitive flower that cares only for dance, in order to make use sympathize with the protagonist. Honestly, the only characters I felt any feelings for was burning hatred for the mother, Joanne Williams by Kierston Wareing and the new totally not pedophilia driven boyfriend of the mother, Connor O'Reily by Michael Fassbender who by rights has a voice so sexy and enthralling it should not even be allowed in a cinema, less you doze off to the feeling of someone trickling warm honey down every available orifice.
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  3. Filmed in Havering, Tilbury the setting goes pretty well for the film as it was already smothered in the gritty smother job that the film needed, alienating half of the production team I'm sure. The setting really does however give the feeling that this is indeed someone's life and that the struggles their facing are real, that the world around them is filled with other people of this type and that the misguided are all over the place. I found myself even lost in it at home, when I started seeing just life must be for these people, but then I remembered I live in a nice flat in a similar area so even more hate was piled on the mum. Though Andrea does really deserve credit for creating a character one can have nothing but hate for, for start to finish the audience has nothing but seething rage for her. I mean by all rights what mother let's her daughter move to wales with a random traveler at the age of 15? I've never wanted an actress to put her tits away so badly.
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  5. But really, some of the characters do pull themselves off well, most notably for me is Connor but then I can't really talk about that man without going into some strange daydream, perhaps all one can truly say is that he actually seems like a man having an affair. The lighting in the film is rather well used I must say and if I ever mention hope in this part then please bear with me and you'll have that quivering itch settled by the end of this review.
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