Sweet Sixteen

Director: Ken Loach

Year: 2002

Genre: Drama

Sweet Sixteen is a British film, documenting the life of liam. a Glaswegian school drop out 15 year old. We join the film where he is making trouble for the police, this scene helps to establish his character and class. we are then shown his extended family and learn thaty his mother is in prison. we can see that he is heavily bullied by his grandfather and his mothers boyfriend. this means that we immediatley feel sorry for him although the first shot established him as a trouble maker.

throughout the course of the film liam is faced with many decisions to bring himself out his rut and prove himself as a usefull man, however these decisions are not without cost.