Kes

This simple film is important film of the British film. This is a documentary. It through a child's gray rough survival, reflects the sixties British proletariat social reality. A desire projected relationship between the boys and the hawk. The hawk is a mirror of the boy’s soul and the forbear his proud to silent flying. Boy domesticated Kitty Hawk and society, families and schools treats the boy in sharp contrast.

No excess music, not deliberate provocative, calm scenes of story as real as happened.
Single mother, miner brother, boring and hypocrisy school education, students and teachers bully, not a sincere friend.

Scenes in the film are revealing an unparalleled beauty. At the broad flat and the lush yellow-green grass, the boy flying the hands of cord, the other end cord tied to the bird's meat. Whenever that bird's meat flew high, the hawk will flying fast from the sky down snatch.
In the film scenes, the boy always located in center. ‘Come on, Kes’ boy’s look and actions are extremely serious, as if all the vitality life here. Falconry is boy greatest spiritual sustenance. No obvious climax of film, but the lens let me impressive. Contrast outcome, the brother killed hawk. When watched here, I could not help heartache.

In that time of the British countryside, the tragedy occurred end such inevitable. Boy makes the dead hawk gently buried in the yellow grass, it have a clearly end of the story. Life boring, empty and cruel, only boy goes childlike face or make people believe there have hope. When the boy buried his beloved hawk moment, perhaps his mind the hawk is a full-fledged, is flying to the sky of freedom.
Like the written on posters: hey beat him. They deprived him. They ridiculed him. They broke his heart. But they couldn't break his spirit.