Absolutely amazing

Like the great film, it's made with a great deal of visible affection both in front of and behind the camera.

It is encouraging that the film ends so strongly.Otherwise, it wouldn't have been a particularly memorable film

Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

Everything changes for 15-year-old Mia when her mum brings home a new boyfriend.How much can be said about the effect of a female writer-director on a film? Is it really different than from a male perspective? Generally, I think any difference is exaggerated. My knowledge is strongest with the horror genre, and the female-helmed features are not obviously different. (I am looking at you, Barbara Peeters.) Here, we see a very female-centric tale. How strong the characters are is debatable, but they are definitely front and center. The unorthodox relationship between daughter and boyfriend is told in a way that is more blunt than generally accepted.

I watched a few adolescent movies recently. This one belongs to the well-done category. It's a story we all can reflect upon. There was Hollywood shallowly adolescent dramatization exited. I grossly dislike John Green's works even his stories sold millions of copies and the adapted movies made big box office hits. They only misled teenager audiences to simplify lives with some pitifully delusional dramas. Anything to strive teenagers to elevate their thinking and develop their own life philosophy was merely non- exited. I would say this movie at least would make audiences take look at their own lives. It's hard to straight out adolescent heads. It's even harder when the surroundings challenged them. Sometimes those arduous moments just stages of lives. But sometimes they became permanent scars. We all need to move on and be guided by our own struggles as long as we are able to overcome.

feeble and predictable plot. solid acting but plenty of small boring moments. this is a minor thing though because the silences depend on the quality of the direction and of the performances – both of which are excellent.mia is a product of poor housing and a unloving family. she is a character who is tough and loner, who wonders the streets and drowns herself in drinking. she has a caring side for a horse, ie. she is a character that longs to be loved, but she can be very harsh, bitter and vengeful. this movie features incredible use of urban lighting, multiple layers of symbolic references and a very cinematic climax, all without a single note of scored music (other than the diagetic use of music in the car, night-club etc).

I imagine it's no small thing even for someone as obviously talented as she to choose a movie career as a young mother, but the UK movie industry would certainly benefit from someone of her charisma and talent.I just now saw this movie on satellite and have no recollection of its being shown around me back in 2009 when it was released. Checking several sources to see how it had been reviewed, I'm glad to see it was critically acclaimed in several movie festivals. Andrea Arnold in particular, its writer-director, should have been proclaimed a cinematic wizard. There are so many brilliant choices in this film that I wonder whether the problem was too many industry people were rightly intimidated. Jarvis, for example, had never acted before.The plot of 'Fish Tank' borrows from Arnold's and Jarvis' own experiences growing up in working class England, I think. A young girl dreams of being a dancer while navigating a mother who can barely keep herself afloat and her unexpectedly attractive, and yet fatherly, new boyfriend played by Michael Fassbender. The movie follows Mia, at 15 and quite spirited, as she struggles to find a foothold in the rough world that's molded her and promises to entrap her.This is an overlooked film that you will never forget; the scenes are so true to life, they're hard to see as fiction. I'm only sorry I didn't see it when it was circulating.