Saira Begum
Fish tank
This film is about a teenage girl who lives a hard family
life with her single Mother, younger sister and her Mother’s boyfriend. Her
mother is very selfish, hard partying and careless with her children as we
discover this later in the film. Mia's real name is Katie Jarvis (born 22 June 1991) is an English actress, known for her role as Mia Williams in the film Fish Tank. She was spotted by a casting agent, following an argument with her boyfriend at Tilbury Town railway station. Mia
grows affection for her
mother’s boyfriend, who later leaves her family. This is shown through their
performance and mis-en-scene. The genre
used in this film was Drama, as it was based on reality and real life problems
of people in our society. Furthermore, this film is based on social realism,
which means this film is based on British society. The types of themes
expressed in this film was innocence and vulnerability- this is often shown by Mia
as she is very young, expressing her vulnerability to the audience through the way she is being treated at home,
also showing how she is being neglected by her mother in some cases, which
explains how her upbringing isn’t to standard. Mia is represented as a young,
urban and street smart character. Negligence is also shown through the
mis-en-scene, how the damped walls and unordered household show the mother
doesn’t take care of herself, let alone her home.
The director of Fish tank, Andrea Arnold used this film to
create the underlining meaning of British social realism. The director even
used Mia, who never acted before, to star in her film, because they she wanted
to focus the film on realism. The director has done this to create meaning, in
the film fish tank, the meaning is to show how vulnerable teenagers are lusted
and that not all situations have a good ending therefore shows the moral view
to the film, and the reality of it in real situations. Comparing it to other
films that Arnold made, she makes films based on real life situations.
