Once again, another great find right on Netflix.
I love you Netflix.

Here we have an interesting story about a young girl named Mia, that has quite the mouth on her, brings herself into trouble, and has a passion for dancing. Living with her lousy mother and her little sister that is becoming just like Mia, you can instantly tell the home life is not stable. The mother brings home a new boyfriend...MICHAEL FASSBENDER *drools*...anyways, yea she brings him home and this man is just TOO nice, in a very odd yet charming way, that makes you even feel uncomfortable. But once he starts getting comfortable at the home and with the family, Mia starts growing emotionally attached to him.…

Sometimes it just takes a couple viewings to get the most out of a viewing experience. That proved to be the case for Andrea Arnold's neo-realistic tale of adolescence in a lower-class suburb in East London. Her storytelling is simplistic and has an authentic grasp of raw spontaneity. Katie Jarvis plays Mia Williams, a teenaged girl living with her promiscuous mother, Joanne (Kierston Wareing), and pre-teen sister, Tyler (Rebecca Griffiths). Their already unstable family life is shook up even more by Joanne's mysterious new boyfriend Connor (played by Michael Fassbender is an early role). Mia spends her days wandering around rural East London picking fights with former friends she used to go to school with (she's been kicked out), smuggling…

Film #2 of No Rewatch November

In my first year of high school we had to read a story called The Yellow Wallpaper in English, which to my knowledge is considered an important piece of literature. The point was raised after reading it that it was terribly depressing, to which the teacher replied that most of the stories in the curriculum were depressing, as depressing stories are easier to analyze. That is how I feel about Fish Tank. It is misery porn of the highest order, the UK's Precious: Based on the book Push by Sapphire. Thus the fact that it is so depressing makes it easy for people to see the message in the film, that message being that…

Andrea Arnold's second feature film has left me frustrated. Its brand of realism is stark and raw, but also empty and aimless. The simplistic plot's emotional presence is inconsistent, often being hurt by its own subtlety. I understand that it is trying to portray the hard truths of life in a strictly authentic fashion, yet like many similar films, it fails to have a purpose or goal it is trying to reach.

Mia Williams (Katie Jarvis) is a hot-tempered, socially repressed teenager. She spends her time wandering the streets and practicing hip-hop dance moves in an abandoned apartment. Her life begins to change when her mother starts dating a mysterious man (Michael Fassbender).

Katie Jarvis does a good job portraying…