The film “The Black Balloon”‚ is a 2008 Australian AFI award-winning dramatic feature film that stars Toni Collette‚ Rhys Wakefield‚ Luke Ford‚ Erik Thomson‚ Gemma Ward; as well as a cast of newcomers. It is directed by first-time feature film director‚ Elissa Down‚ Despite being set in the early 1990’s‚ the movie‚ “The Black Balloon” still contains relevant messages for audiences in the modern age. These messages involve the discrimination the Mollison family is subjected to‚ the characters that
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is the unspoken challenge laid down by “The Black Balloon‚” a harrowing‚ unsentimental portrait of a middle-class Australian family whose oldest son has severe autism compounded by attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. Would you find in yourself the seemingly infinite reserves of love and patience possessed by the Mollisons‚ the movie’s itinerant‚ highly stressed army family who have just moved to the suburbs of Sydney? Maybe not. “The Black Balloon‚” directed by Elissa Down‚ was inspired by
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Elissa Down’s film‚ ‘The Black Balloon‚’ is set in a rural Queensland city‚ NSW‚ in the early 1990s. It is the story of the Mollison family‚ who are struggling with the stresses of raising an Autistic child. The film deals with issues such as the difficulties of moving house‚ changing schools‚ growing up and change within the family. Underlying all of these issues in the need for acceptance: acceptance into a community‚ a new school and within the family itself. The Mollison family finds it hard
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.-The Black Balloon -1 Introduction. 1- The film The Black Balloon was filmed in Australia and the UK and was produced by (Tristram MiallToni Collette) The story is about the members of a family‚ the parents and two teenage boys‚ as they cope with a unexpected challenge. Complications arise because one of the teen age boys‚ Charlie‚ is intellectually disabled. The family has relocated to a new area. Because the father has a new positing in the army. Thomas is turning 16.Thomas finds Charlie an
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Elissa Down’s 2008 film The Black Balloon deeply explores the complex themes and issues that surround the dynamics of a family whose teenage son is the subject to autism. Such issues revolve around society’s attitude to people who suffer from a disability and the struggles families go through when a family member has a disorder. The film depicts a military family‚ the Mollisons who have two sons‚ Charlie has autism and attention deficit disorder‚ and his younger brother‚ Thomas a 15 year old who
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Thomas is not the only character that feels as though he doesn’t fit in. Do you agree? INTRODUCTION: The Black Balloon directed by Elissa Down is a film about a family living with an autistic son. Throughout the movie‚ Thomas feels embarrassed being Charlie’s brother‚ he feels left out not only at school but at home too. Thomas is the main focus of not fitting in but he is not the only character that feels like he doesn’t belong. Thomas’ brother Charlie may not be able to act or speak like other
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The Black Balloon was a film which explored themes of belonging and prejudice through the life of Charlie Mollision and his family. His underlying characteristics and interest are depicted in ‘Full or empty?’‚ questioning the audience; is the glass half full or half empty? The ‘glass’ is made of a plastic material‚ man-made‚ as was the barrier between Charlie and the world. Like prejudice‚ it warps the appearance of an image‚ portraying Charlie and other Autistic children to be stereotypically dangerous
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Essay The Black Balloon The film “The Black Balloon” directed by Elissa Downs is a bold film about the realistic look at autism within a suburban family over a more traditional coming of age story. It looks at the complexities of family life without over-romanticizing Charlie’s autism and the affects it has on each member of the family as well as others outside of the family. The main theme of the film is that of Thomas’s coming of age and accepting that his brother will never be normal. Another
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Through my study of The Turning by Tim Winton as well as The Black Balloon by Elissa Down. I have learnt that change is completely relentless and that even the slightest or most significant change can turn our world upside down. In The Turning‚ the concept of change is evident both within each stories landscape and its characters. We see the impact of change and its recognition through characters such Vic Lang through the story “long clear view” and both Bob Lang and Vic Lang in “Commission”. The
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Elissa Down‚ Director of the movie The Black Balloon‚ shows the viewer about the representations of family‚ teens‚ disability and suburban Australia and how they all fit into each other and are not single representations‚ but are under one big heading. From the start of the movie we are introduced to the Mollison’s‚ a family of four but with one on the way‚ within the first minute of meeting this family we see that they are not a normal working-class Australian family. The Mollison’s have an autistic
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