Movie Sharing - Billy Elliot (Part III)

Date: 28th January 2015
Day: Wednesday
Time: 4:30-5:30pm
Class: Pomegranate
Theme: Occupations
Teacher: Teacher Yeong

Movie Sharing - Billy Elliot (Part III)

Today, we managed to complete the movie. I believe that the children might not truly understand every part of the movie but overall, they managed to understand that Billy has succeeded his dream of being a ballet dancer. The children were quite touching with his success at last.

The last part of the movie that we watched today covered the content below:

Jackie catches Billy dancing in the gym and realizes that his son is truly gifted; he will do whatever it takes to help Billy attain his dream. Mrs Wilkinson tries to convince Jackie to let her pay for audition, but he replies that Billy is his son. Jackie attempts to cross the picket line to pay for the trip to London, but Tony blocks him. Instead, his fellow miners and the neighbourhood raise some money and Jackie pawns Billy mother's jewellery to cover the cost. Jackie takes Billy to London for the audition at the Royal Ballet School. Though highly nervous, Billy perform wells, but he punches another boy in this frustration at the audition and the fear that he might have ruined the chances of attaining his dream. He is sternly rebuked by the review board but when asked what it feels like when he is dancing, he describes it is like electricity. Seemingly rejected, Billy returns home with his father. Sometime later, he receives a letter accepting him to the Royal Ballet School, and he leaves home to attend. 

The final scene of the film is set fourteen years later. The mature Billy takes the stage to perform the lead in Matthew Bourne's Swan Lake where Jackie, Tony and Michael watch in the audience.