Rubbish

thebogofeternalstench

A day in the life of a chavette. That's what this film is about.

The director found the lead actress at a train station having a chav argument with her boyfriend and obviously this is what gets you lead roles in films..........??? Wow, she must of had such amazing talent, all that shouting she did.

So from that note, I'm guessing Katie Jarvis is, basically, playing herself in Fish Tank? That is NOT acting.

And I'm sick of this 'oh, shes never acted before, didn't she do well?' NO she didn't. It is such attention seeking for awards. It's been done countless numbers of times where a sub par director picks a fresh unknown and tries to fish for awards (No pun intended.) I had to laugh at the front of the DVD cover, "Most honored British film of the year' LOL! Really? How pretentious.

The whole film is shot at the same pace and feel...cameraman/woman follows chavette, chavette curses at random people, chavette sleeps with mums bf (wow, never saw that coming...), chavette tries in vain to free a horse from cockney speaking travellers. (Never met a cockney speaking traveler, only Irish ones, so that was totally unrealistic..) ...Chavette does a lot of crap dancing to crap music, goes to a dance audition and just stands there doing nothing then walks off...LOL.

Mums bf who she slept with does a runner so she goes looking for him and discovers he's living with another family, and has a daughter?

She kidnaps his daughter, throws her in the sea, retrieves her, then takes her back home?

At the end of the film she leaves home to go live with one of the travelers.....wow...an incredibly $hit ending.

This film is a travesty. Wheres the story? Do we really need to hear curse words every 2 mins to know she lives on a council estate? We get it!

Another $hit British film that's praised up to be something that its not. And I'm from England.

score 1/10

thebogofeternalstench 1 December 2010

Reprint: https://www.imdb.com/review/rw2346798/