The girl is Mia, played by Katie Jarvis in a harrowing display of hostility. She's been thrown out of school, is taunted as a weirdo by boys her age, has no friends, converses with her mother and sister in screams and retreats to an empty room to play her music and dance alone.
She drinks what little booze she can get her hands on. And where is her mother? Right there at home, all the time. Joanne Kierston Wareing looks so young, she might have had Mia at Mia's age. Joanne is shorter, busty, dyed blond, a chain-smoker, a party girl. The party is usually in her living room. One day, she brings home Connor Michael Fassbender , a good-looking guy who seems nice enough. Mia screams at him, too, but it's a way of getting attention.
Joanne seems happiest when Mia isn't at home. The girl wanders the streets and gets in a fight when she tries to free a horse chained in a barren lot near some shabby mobile homes. She surfs in an Internet cafe, goes to an audition for sexy dancers and breaks into a house at random. One day differs from the routine. Connor takes Mia, her mom and her little sister Tyler Rebecca Griffiths on a drive to the country.
This isn't an idyllic picnic; they simply park in a field and hike to a river, Joanne staying with the car. Connor takes Mia wading "I can't swim" in the river. Walking barefoot, she gets a ride on his back and rests her chin on his shoulder, and what was in the air from the first is now manifest. Some reviews call Connor a pedophile. I think he's more of an immoral opportunist. If Fish Tank isn't quite as good as its predecessor, it's only because Red Road's eerie existential-thriller aspect made it a distinct anomaly in British film.
Altogether more familiar, Fish Tank could almost be considered an archetype of Brit realism, of scuffed school-of-Loach working-class drama. It's a vein of cinema in need of reinvention, and Arnold may not rethink it from the very roots in Fish Tank, but she carries the film off with fresh, abrasive clarity. Fish Tank is set in a bleak stretch of Essex, near Tilbury, where even the roadside vegetation has a wizened, skanky look.
The protagonist is year-old Mia Katie Jarvis , the kind of girl who's more usually a statistic than a person who art-film audiences get to know in any depth. She's the scowling hoodie on the corner, an embodiment of the tabloids' "broken Britain".
We think we have her measure at the start when Mia strides angrily towards a gang of her peers practising a sullen girl-group dance routine, and head-butts one of them. Then she slopes off back to the council flat where her mother Joanne Kierston Wareing — more like a foul-tempered, abusive big sister — spits invective at her.
It's a horrible, sour, piss-off world that Arnold paints. Officially a social problem, Mia is destined for a pupil referral unit where she will be off her mother's hands.
A loner, Mia is only at ease in an abandoned flat practising solo dance moves. Framing the film in a cramped, nearly square ratio, Arnold and director of photography Robbie Ryan evoke the claustrophobia of Mia's world, show how her natural energies are boxed in, urging to burst as she dances with angry, muscular intensity.
Later, Mia is seen drinking from the bottle in her mother's bedroom and the bottle is half full. Quotes Tyler : [buries face in Mia's abdomen] I hate you! User reviews Review. Top review. Bitingly realistic, discomforting and hauntingly beautiful.
Fish Tank hits you deep and hard, in the soul. It drew me in to its world without me hardly noticing it - a world of ultra-realism, burnished, you must say, by some quite incredible performances from Katie Jarvis and the rest of the cast. One night of disturbed sleep after watching it and I am still in their world, out on the bleak and beautiful flatlands bordering Essex and London which so many people speed through every day as they journey between London and mainland Europe on the Eurostar trains.
I myself have taken that journey a few times and wondered what the people's lives were like who lived in this strange landscape where London has parked so much of the stuff that it doesn't want to see - the giant container terminals, the power plants and the chemical works.
Fish Tank perhaps gives a taste of those lives, but it does much more than that. Especially it gives us a heroine who we can't help caring for deeply, despite and partly because she is on the outside so nasty, rude and violent. Through some of the things she gets up to as she wonders around we see a natural love of life bursting to get out though. We also have an attractive and kind man come into the picture who, through his natural goodness, offers an outlet for her yearnings for understanding, fun, and intimacy.
The story starts off slowly as we get to know year old Mia, her family and the wider and very limited world around her. But it picks up and becomes tautly gripping at times - and it never slips into sentimentality or offers false redemption.
It is all the better for that. Details Edit. Release date September 11, United Kingdom. Netherlands United Kingdom. Barking, London, England, UK. Box office Edit. Technical specs Edit.
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