1. She covers her ear to
The pub in the background is where listen to music also Practical coat
all males enjoy a drink after the signifying that she is suggesting
game. Earlier speech Terry says shutting out the world appearance
‘takes me to the pub’ however in and trying to escape to cannot be an
this flashback we can see that she is her dream world of issue as money
left outside. On soundtrack you hear fulfilling her singing may be
them all inside laughing and talking ambitions. limited.
in contrast to the silence outside.
Only sense of colour in the mise en Large empty space beside her
scene is the grass, which is suggestive of the loneliness she
noticeably behind her. This is a faces throughout her life.
metaphor to the fact that her best
days are now behind her as she The CD player again shows her
grows up in the adult world. listening to music and shutting out
the world around her.
Worn out, grubby bench gives the
suggestion of a rundown area.
She sits on the dirty looking bench
and is more colourful than the
mise en scene a signifier to the
brighter life she wishes to aspire
to, moving up from the working
class status to somewhere higher
in the social hierarchy of society.
The bench and her are a metaphor
for her ambitions.