Brassed Off
What Resonated with you and why?
Danny and Phil
The part of the plot of this movie that made me think the most were the troubles of Danny's young son Phil. He is in the point of his life where his responsibilities far outweigh his ability to keep up with them. He is a young man, with a wife and several children, working for a dying industry, and sacrificing his pride working as a clown at parties to supplement his income enough to take care of his family.
The feeling I get from his character is that this is a man who feels he deserves more than what he's received out of life to this point. There's an unsure relationship with his father, distress within his marriage because of money problems, and the combination of this with the grim outlook of his future makes the audience feel his pain in what must be the lowest point of his life, punctuated by his attempt to end his own life. It was that action that me feel a little less sorry for him, instead sad.
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