Answers to Fish Tank Questions.

1. Is Connor a father figure to Mia?

At the beginning of the film, Mia is shown as a child brought up in a family without a father therefore when her mum gets a new boyfriend we immediately think he will be the father in her life. This is true throughout the first half as he takes care of her and her sister, Tyler. They go fishing together, he helps her when she cuts herself and he loans her money, this is why the audience are led to believe he has become a father figure to her. The moment in the film whereby the audience question his behaviour is when he carries her to her bed and starts to remove her clothes. This suggests that he has become too comfortable in such a short space of time. The scene in the film where we know he isn't her father figure is when he watches her dance then asks her to sit closely to him, this suggests he is behaving inappropriately. They then became intimate allowing the audience to instantly realise he isn't a father figure to her.

2. Do your decisions from the article change after seeing the film?

After watching Fishtank our decisions on the film stayed the same and we still agree with the review as we agree with when the reviewer mentions the variation of emotions  including humour and sadness which the audience can witness for themselves. We contradict with the statement in the review about the film not being just another British film set on a council estate which we thought it was as this was shown view the setting, language and mainly the story line and the point of the film.


3. What does this film say about the state of British family?

This film showed us that families of today in that area may not be close to each other as opposed to a British family in the area that we live in. They're not a family unit as they don't show a built relationship or show emotions or structure as when the mother and daughter say good bye, their way of saying bye is by dancing. This is instead of showing a connection and behaving like a real family. This suggest their family doesn't have any structure this is shown through Mia never mentioning her dad and Connor being like her dad in the beginning then breaking the fatherly relationship by being intimate with her.