Essay About Danny Boyles Shallow Grave And Night Club

Modern Art
Modern Art
I will compare and contrast Mike Newells Dance with a Stranger and
Danny Boyles Shallow Grave in terms of alienation. The reasoning
behind my choice is that these two films have explicit characteristics
in the frame of alienation. Both highlight modern alienation in terms
of alienated sexuality, isolation, normlessness whereas Newell
discusses alienation also in class and gender difference perspective;
Boyle discusses alienation in the working place as an alienated
labour.
To begin with, when we examine Dance with a Stranger, we see Ruth,
David, Desmond and Andy as films main characters. Ruth is the most
alienated character in this film. Firstly, she was a manager of a
night club, she was taking care of the customers, singing, dancing and
seemed all right but after having met David, her life was totally
changed she lost her job and she began to have obsessive feelings
about David. She sheltered near Desmond with her son Andy and day by
day she started to get distant from the world. She began to feel
despair and disconnected from social world. The scene in which Andy
was watching the television, in the background she was drinking and
looked