Contemporary Cinema and Neoliberal Ideology by Ewa Mazierska Lars Kristensen

Author:Ewa Mazierska,Lars Kristensen
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Publisher: Taylor & Francis (CAM)

Aesthetics and politics

Tim belongs to a working-class family that has fallen apart: mother dead; father left home; elder brother Greg in prison and sister playing truant. It is Tim’s job to bring in the money and keep the bailiffs out, which he does through criminal means – as a fence and, later, a drug courier.

The criminal milieu Tim inherits from Greg is one in which working-class communities are shown to often fall victim to the depredations of their own – Greg is shown unwittingly robbing the house of someone related to the partner of his own criminal associate. In addition to these problems and dangers, Tim is suffering from a serious undiagnosed illness which he leaves untreated. His girlfriend, Lily, is pregnant, but, already forced by circumstances into the position of acting as a parent to his own younger sister, Tim is unwilling to become a father. He remains, in name, a son, grandson and brother. But the substance of these relationships is denied him by absence or death. Eventually, he succumbs to his illness and is rushed to hospital for life-saving surgery. In a flashforward Lily is shown giving birth to his baby and he appears happy and reconciled to being a father.

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