Year: 2006
Locations and Settings:
- Trains/ Train station- sense of security and a new beginning when on the train
- Brighton Pier/ beach- sense of freedom and safety and new start
- Back end streets of London- (Same as Bullet Boy and Sweet sixteen) Danger and entrapment- reflects Joanne and Kelly's state of being
- Derek's flat- Dirtiness, squalid place of business for pimping
- Ducan's house- White coloured walls- white usually associated with clinical, purity / in contrast with Joanne's red jumper and lipstick, red usually assosicated with passion or danger and in contrast to the disgusting Paedophilia of Duncan
- The Woods- Mostly set in the night where woods are, maybe to show that woods reflect concealment or protection from the outside law.
- Devon/ Joanne's Nan's cottage- a new beginning - white paint - purity and safety in this case
Narrative Structure:
- Time shifts to different places and settings- The characters' knew more than the spectator did, and slowly revealed what was happening through out the film
- Use of black screen transistions to show time passing or a switch to a different setting
- Filmed from Kelly's point of view women vicitimised by men- men always retain a sense of power and authority through out the film
- Some straight cuts to show passing of time
Characterisation:
- Kelly- A prostitue from back end streets of London- turned mother figure to Joanne
- Joanne- An 11 year old runaway, had her body sold to Ducan through Derek
- Derek- Pimp, who's life is on the line becuase of Kelly and Joanne and may be killed by Stuart (Ducan's son)
- Stuart- Gangster/ millonaire through his father- sees father dead and sets of to find the culprit or revenge
- Duncan- Stuart's father- paedophile who wants "business" from Derek
- Chum- sub character - slave to Derek
Ideology:
- Working class citizens- pimps, gangsters, prostitues- use of colloquial language and curse words
- White community/world- mostly except from Chum (half - caste)
- Women- mainly prostitues, friends and victims
- Men- Gangsters, Pimps, some authority- always in power
Genre features:
- Similar shots to Fargo- establishing shots and a door frame and bakcground shot
- Spectator involvement- filmed in a documentary type- way (sense of realisim) however more cinematic than Bullet boy and Sweet Sixteen- because of the "letterbox"/ widescreen filming technique
- Letterbox technique- could represent claustraphobia of the film/ entrapment similar to Bullet Boy and Sweet Sixteen
- Lighting- In London it's mostly dark, dangerous and dismal- reflecting the danger for the lives of Kelly, Joanne, Derek and Chum
- Lighting- In Brighton mainly light- symbolises sense of freedom and saftey
- Slow motion - when Joanne and Kelly are going into Duncan's house- represents impact and significance to the film - "defining moment " of the film - what the film is centred around
- Music on the slow motion scene- Moonlight Symphony- same as Elephant
