- Mia is seen to be trapped and isolated by this never ending circle of negative representation. The idea of isolation is symbolised through the horse owned by billy, as it is chained up, has little freedom and is malnourished.
- As Mia failed the school system she lives at home with her uncompassionate mothers and uses dancing as a form of escapism. Dancing is her dream and once she realises she’s not part of that collective identity, she gives up all hope at being a professional dancer.
- Mia has no social group and no friends except from billy resulting in a loss of identity, this would be enhanced is she went to boarding school as she would be isolated from the outside world.
- At the last scene she looks
back at her sister as she knows she has the same self-fulfilling prophecy just
like she did.- Mia has two different relationships with Connor throughout the film, one as a father figure and the other as a physical and intimate relationship, however due to her vulnerability he takes advantage of her and her situation.
- Connor is seen as a father figure from the scenes of giving her first aid, carrying her to her bedroom and encouraging the family to bond. However this father figure is vanished when he starts to touch her and eventually sleep with her.
- The mise-en-scene that portrays working class youths are the high rise flats, caravans, track suits, drinking and smoking, all of which are common media representations of this class.
- The subversions included the young working class girl Mia, having an ambition to be a successful dancer, this subverts common media images of working class youths because they are usually portrayed to be lazy and undetermined in life.
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