Summary:
The movie started out with Mia (the troubled 15 year old) tired from running. She goes to her friend's house and asks for her, the father tells her to go away. Mia finds her friend at the park dancing to hip hop music with her ugly friends. Mia sits, watches, then gets up and starts an argument with her friend. The ugly friends chime in and Mia headbuts one of them. The next scene is Mia going home and her mother tells her to stay home with Tyler, her younger sister. Mia leaves anyway and goes to dance in an abandoned building. She goes back home and goes to sleep. When she wakes up and goes downstairs, she watches a Hip Hop music video and dances to it as she makes tea. A man (Connor) comes downstairs and watches her for a little while. Mia turns around and is startled because she has never seen this man before. He tells her she dances like a black girl, which he says is a compliment. He goes back upstairs to the mother. Mia makes a friend as she tries to save a sick horse. Mia, Tyler, her mom, and Connor go to a lake and Mia helps Connor catch a fish. Then he asks her to dance and Mia dances, but stops and gets upset when her mom says she looks stupid. She storms off then finds a flyer that says wanted dancers, so she prepares a song. Connor lends her a camera so she records herself with it and sends it in. She gets a callback and is excited. Meanwhile, she watches her mom and Connor have sex. Connor looks at her twice then she goes back to her room. The next day, Mia finds Connor at work, she is with her new friend and she asks Connor for money. She later goes home and Connor says that boy looked old for her. The next night her mom comes home drunk so Connor puts her in bed. Then Mia goes downstairs with Connor and she shows him what she wants to do for her audition. Connor likes it and then they have sex. Connor leaves the next morning, Mia goes to find him. Connor says she can't be at his house, so he takes her back to the train station to go home. Mia goes back to his house, but Connor isn't there so she goes inside and discovers that Connor is married and has a child named Keira. When the family comes home, Mia sneaks out of the house and sits down and watches Keira ride her scooter back and forth. Connor and his wife go in the house and Mia kidnaps Keira. Keira runs away near a lake and kicks Mia in the shin multiple times so Mia drops her in the lake, then Keira pops her head back out and Mia pulls her out of the water with a tree branch. They hug and Mia takes her back home. She is walking home when Connor is driving and finds her and chases her down and slaps her. Then he walks away and that is the end of them. Mia talks to her friend and he says he is going to Wales, so Mia goes with him. Her mom is in the living room dancing to her Nas CD, Mia and Tyler join her in dancing. Then Mia leaves.
Analysis:
I actually loved this movie. The plot was a little scattered at times, but overall it was good and I do recommend it. The shots were really nice I thought the angles they used were amazing. There were 2 shots that I hated though. One was in the beginning where Mia was dancing in the abandoned building, and they showed her from the back, and it was so dark, but really light in front of her. It was like a half silhouette and it looked gross. The other one was towards the end when Mia was chasing Kiera. The camera was so shaky and I couldn't see. It hurt my eyes. Other than that, the movie was beautiful. It took a while for the movie to pick up my interest. The exposition scenes were strange. I feel like they just threw in random bad things for Mia to do so that we could see that she was a "bad girl" but it was so outrageous and random it just made me a bit uncomfortable. But once Mia did her audition dance for Connor, I was wondering if they were going to kiss or not. I thought the arc of the relationship between Mia and Connor was great, but I didn't like how they ended things. I hated that he just slapped her and left, they didn't talk about anything. I would've wanted more of a resolution for them. Other than that, watch this movie its pretty good.
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