About a girl

• Title came up like a text message, you can hear the buttons being pressed-the films about a teenage girl
• First see a young girl dancing to Britney Spears, tells us she's into pop music
• She is shown as a silhouette, she has a hidden identity-she's alone, dark, isolated
• From what we can see from the girls family and the area she lives in she is poor and she is from a working class background
• She is confident yet naive
• It's filmed like she is having a conversation with the camera person, like a documentary
• She comes from a single parent family and she lives on a council estate
• She doesn't have a very good relationship with her dad, her mum hates her dad
• Her dad is unemployed
• she is 13 years old and believes she is an adult, she doesn't like being treated like a child
• she doesn't believe what people say, she doesn't believe her dad
• she enjoys singing, it is her escape from reality
• she thinks she knows everything, she is cheeky and has an attitude
• Her mum spends a lot of money on cigarettes, theres not a lot of spare money around
• she wanted to buy a piano but her mum couldn't afford one
• She wants to escape her current lifestyle and become a singer, we see that her mum wants to escape it too because we see her buying a scratch card
• She prefers her dad to her mum, her dad's not a very good dad and he doesn't really want to know but she still wants to live with him
• She doesn't notice how bad her dad is, she idolizes him
• Pathetic fallacy-the weather is grey and dull. This is a reflection on her life
• We also learn that her mum doesn't care very much, she threw a dog in the canal
• The girl is a product of her environment, she managed to get pregnant and no one noticed
• When she throws her baby in the canal its a reflection of what her mum did to the puppy
• The plastic bag she throws into the river with the baby in is a representation of her-she is disposable. The bag ends up getting trapped which means there is no escape from her actions
• The way that there is no music in the film makes the film seem more realistic and more like a documentary than a film