fishtank final scene analysis

Final scene:

- Music about difficulty of life- represents mothers/Mias hard life- creates sympathy for spectator.
- they dance together/mirroring each other- first connection and Mias understanding of her mother- camera tricks with them- audience a part of their connection
- her hair is down for the first time- she is conforming to male objectification.
- the way they stand in line with each other suggests an evolutionary stage- inevitable cycle.
- sister presented infant of estate as car drives away- suggests lack of home for most people in poverty.
- car drives off into sunset- ironic as future for Mia is presented as bleak- comment on traditional hollywood movies where people drive off into the sunset.
- Mia reliant on billy to escape situation- comment about how women are still largely reliant on men for escape
- extreme long shot of balloon floating off- suggests fragility of Mia- her escape will only be temporary/ not a bright future- ostensibly a happy ending.