How typical is your chosen text of its genre?
The purpose of the social realism genre is to make the audience empathise with the under-represented and focuses upon a hard, realistic look at contemporary Britain. Character roles within this film are shown as the following; the main protagonist is usually a typical working class hero that strives for an improved life. The moral of social realist films are often based around a non nuclear, dysfunctional broken family. This is shown through various technical codes and narrative themes throughout this film. Conventions of the social realism genre often include a negative representation of females which 'Fish Tank' conforms too. This film addresses family issues and plays on the ideology of escapism throughout.
As this film tries to gain empathy from the audience the main protagonist Mia is represented as 'trapped' and alone. Throughout the whole of this film we see rap music videos being shown on the TV's in the houses, as Mia is subjected to this behaviour everyday she believes that she should imitate their actions and aspires to be a dancer in order to attract male attention or could be argued that she uses it as a method of escapism from the outside world.
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