Saturday Night Sunday Morning Analysis + Example of similar film

Trailer for Saturday Night Sunday Morning:

Summary:

This film fits inside the genre of social realism, it was originally a novel but the director 'Karel Reisz' decided to do an adaptation of the film. The film is about Adam Seaton, a young machinist in a factory in Nottingham. The main sub-genres of this film fall under: love, struggle, romance, affairs, deceit. The reason why this film is ultimately a social realist film is because all of these sub-genres are very applicable to the real world.

'Saturday Night Sunday Morning' highlights that life is a struggle, from typical Hollywood films there is no real message that is applicable to the real world whereas this film highlights the grittier aspect of life.

This Establishing shot of the scenery in which the film is set shows the urban area that Reisz is trying to portray to indicate to the audience how life was in this day. The shot shows the streets of Nottingham and the factory that the character works on. This indicates how close people lived to their workplace back then. The shot shows small terraced houses and empty streets, there is also very little cars on the road which is a massive difference from the present. One key thing with Social Realism is that their main purpose is to show what life was like at that time, I think this shot shows this about Saturday Night Sunday Morning.

Fishtank (2009) in some ways is very similar to Saturday Night Sunday Morning, the film fits under the same genre. The director chose an actor with very little acting experience to star as the main character in the film. This was to show an accurate view of what the characters life is like and this allows a very natural performance. Fishtank is similar to Saturday Night Sunday Morning because the main character is someone from the working class who is very similar to a lot of people in the same class. Both of these films indicate that everyone has their own story and that a dramatic and 'over the top' storyline does not necessarily make the best films.