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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Spells &amp; Karma" data-source="post: 435597" data-attributes="member: 23">After I watched I commented that Billy's dad and brother overcame their aversion just a tad more easily than I'd have liked. But what we got was enough to convince me, and the only way to have extended the conflict would be to increase the running length.Yes, absolutely. Matter-of-fact sums it up perfectly. It's quite unapologetically unsentimental, and yet there's something about that which got me feeling things anyway. It felt truthful and non-manipulative.That was a really nicely done moment. I can remember the strikes, of course, which got much news coverage in the Eighties, and around the time I watched the film I'd had my memory of it refreshed (and some gaps filled in) by watching both mid-Eighties Brookside - which sometimes mentioned the strikes and frequently criticised Thatcher's stranglehold on British industry - and Pride, which was set at exactly the same time as Billy Elliot (1984) and also had the miners' strike as an important part of its story, .This is getting beyond a joke, I know, but even though I've heard very good things about it.... I haven't seen Kes either.I have just spotted it's on Prime, so it's added to my watchlist.  Soon.<img src="http://yoursmiles.org/tsmile/music/t4217.gif"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":loony:" title="Loony    :loony:" data-shortname=":loony:" /></blockquote>

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