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I'd only seen two movies before Kes. One was The Poseidon Adventure — all I can remember is going in my pyjamas I was ill and being cold — and the other the film of Steptoe and Son. It was a friend's birthday, and I think my memory might be playing a sick trick here Albert Steptoe takes a bath in a tin tub and I found it weirdly thrilling. The pupils were an unlikely mix of juvenile delinquents, chronic asthmatics, kids with learning difficulties, cerebral palsy, Down's syndrome, and those who had rare diseases.

I was never sure why it was called an open-air school. But we certainly spent a lot of time in the open air — every afternoon playing football outside except for when the weather was too bad. One day it was pissing down, and we were forced inside. The teacher put on a film to keep us quiet. This was , and the movie was already ancient five years old ; it had been made by a man who called himself Kenneth Loach. But there wasn't a squeak. We'd never seen anything like Kes. Based on the Barry Hines novel A Kestrel for a Knave it is about skinny Billy Casper brilliantly played by David Bradley making his screen debut who lived in a northern coal-mining community.

Billy hated school like we did, he messed about and felt isolated like we did, and wondered what the point of everything was.

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He becomes so adept that one of his more enlightened teachers asks him to give a talk to the class. Hope my review does not offend any one. Then one day he decides to train a baby Kestrel, and with that comes a solace he never thought was possible Characterisation of the working-class in the late 60s 4. This film embodies what it means to be working class in all the best traditional ways. The cinemetography is superb and the haunting music contributes to what can only be described as Very good movie.

Then he hooked up with a kestrel, learned to train it and love it, and discovered not only a purpose in life but an ability to communicate that he had never had before. None of us had kestrels, but we all related to the film. Most fictional kids we'd seen on the telly were posh and public-school, like Tom Brown. But Kes wasn't about privilege — just the opposite. Working-class boys speaking in working-class accents, and sometimes muttering so much that you couldn't make out what they were saying.

The language was colloquial, the film was lit like the real world , the actors didn't look like actors. In the centre of the movie is a young boy named Billy. He has some difficulties not only in school also in his life. He uses all his abilities to take care of a young kestrel. He is very interested in kestrels and tries to inform himself about this topic.

Billy is not only raising up this kestrel but also trains him. During the movie we get some impressions of the conventional school system, the boring life in a working class settlement and the desperate future situation in the Nord English settlement where mostly everybody is employed in a coal mine. Ken Loach normally has a documentary stile. He tries to make a movie as realistic as possible by using laymen as actors and letting the setting take place on the original background described in the book.

In the film Kes the characteristics and the style of Loach are clearly shown.

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He is using the real environment, the natural light and like in a documentary or realistic film the view is mostly on the protagonist. His father was a coal miner. He taught at a London comprehensive school before returning to Yorkshire to settle down and teach. Between his life and his book Kes you can find some things in common.

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The town is the same as the one in his real life where he worked as a teacher and also the theme of the working-class is a theme that is well-known for him. The action takes place in the late 60s in North England. Billy, a fifteen-year-old boy, lives in a working-class family. The movie shows mainly the working-class settlement, the school, the woods or the house where Billy lives. We get some short impressions of the city and the working place of his brother — the coal mines. England at that time has a very strong class hierarchy.

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It isn't often that Academy Award winners completely fail to open in Chicago, but that's what happened with “Kes.” In the event that the movie's. Ken Loach's social-realist tragedy from looks more luminous, more impassioned than ever, a rich film of flesh and blood. Perhaps,

This is shown in different ways in the film. For once there are some passive informations in the film.

It starts with the dress Billy is wearing — dress in light blue corduroy trousers and a khaki jacket — but also the light where brown, green and grey dominates gives a more depressive picture of the film. More obvious is the education problem. In this quote it becomes obvious that Billys mother is aware of her class but feels unable to break class boundaries for or with Billy. Also Billys teacher Mr.

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Farthing is not capable to help Billy to get more education to have more future opportunities. Ken Loach is not directly talking about the class situation but through lightening and sounds and camera actions he shows a realistic situation at that time. Already in the first scene Ken Loach confronts the viewer with the one way situation Billy is struggling with.

In the first discussion between Billy and his brother Jud the social dismobility is shown:.

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