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Some scenes seem like direct echoes, especially the sequences where the boys steal a book in order to learn more about their new-found interest and there is a key moment in both films where each of them is able to articulate in a more public setting how it feels to engage in their passion. Instead, both find a passion that they struggle to develop in secret. Both Billies reject the traditionally masculine activities (football, boxing) they are encouraged to pursue, as well as the potential future that is laid out for them in working down the coal mine. Like his namesake, Billy Elliot has a missing parent (in this case, his mother), and is routinely belittled by an older brother.
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Like Loach’s film, it is about a young boy who seeks to escape from the constraints of his poor, working-class upbringing – in this case, in order to develop a talent for dance. The next film I want to consider breaks slightly with the chronological sequence, yet Stephen Daldry’s Billy Elliot contains so many echoes of Kes that it really needs to be read alongside it.