About A Girl is a short realist drama about an English
working class girl and her difficult relationship with her family. The film
cuts between following the protagonist as she recounts parts of her life to the
audience, and flashbacks to different scenes in her life as she talks about
them. The use of tragic irony through these cuts, such as when she says her
father took her in the pub yet we see her sat alone outside, is emotive and makes
us sympathise with the protagonist.
The film
uses quick cutting, jump cuts and unsteady handheld camerawork to make the film
feel uncomfortable and rushed, and to give it a documentary aesthetic. In
contrast, slower editing and more steady camerawork is employed on moments of
revelation, such as the café scene with her father, and at the end where she
disposes of the baby in the canal. The clarity of these scenes suggests we are
seeing the objective truth, whilst the more subjective camerawork and girl’s rambling
monologue conveys a disorientated and unreliable protagonist, affected by her
surroundings and troubled family life. The protagonist’s singing is emotive and
expressive of her character, whilst still remaining diegetic in keeping with
the realist style.
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