Somer Town - Notes...

Before we watch the film we had a lecture on British film and about Somers Town these are the notes that i took during it.

British Films normally include

• Working Class Heroes
• Breaking Taboos
• Getting Ideas
• A Sense of Place
• Displacement - mobility, leaving identity behind and making a new one.
• Outsiders

Somers Town is about a boy called Tomo who come down to London from Nottingham as he has run away from a broken home. He then meets marek and in away they adopt each other as Marek has moved to London as his Dad is working on the construction of the Euro tunnel. They then meet Maria who is a stereotypical character being a French waitress who they both end up falling in love with which bring the two boys closer to do things for Maria but then it also pulls them apart as they want to know who she likes the most. Somers Town is a comedy as there is funnny parts in it like trying to rent out the deck chairs. The film is about Marek and Tomo re-inventing themeselves and finding out who they really are. The film is the British questioning the classes and looking towards Europe trying to say something.