Let Him Have It Essay.

makes us feel sorry for him because it is a word that not many people could spell and they court asked a 10 year old to spell it with learning difficulties. This makes us on his side more because of the unjust he has. We then see him in room later on in life. He’s not been out in a year and got no social skills because he doesn’t meet anyone. Iris is having a conversation with him trying to push him to get out of the house for once. This makes us feel sorrier for him because we’ve seen him grow up throughout life and how he got the illness. We see how close Iris and Derek are with each other. We then saw him in the garden Shed while he is fixing a radio. We then have another close up on his face because he fixed the radio and it is an achievement for him. He starts dancing when the music comes on and the mood changes from him being focused to him being happy. The music is carried on into next scene when Derek and Iris are in Derek’s room dancing and singing. Iris again encourages him to get out of the house and we see how close together they are. We see Derek leaving the house with Iris. This is where we first see Craig, a Dark figure in a light background which makes him stand out. The camera stops on him to make us realise he is a part in the film. We then see Derek going into the music shop and him being intimidated by a girl called Stella because he is shy. We hear jazzy music in the background. When he gets home, his dad says you can get a job soon to try and push him out of the house more. We feel sorry for him again because it reinforces that he has an illness and no social skills when he faced Stella. We then see Craig introduced to us, he starts off by acting as a gangster when he holds a gun to Derek’s back. He then starts laughing asking Derek if he wants to hold the gun. He then says he has jobs for him, he tries to act like he’s in a gang. You start to hear a train in the background that gets louder and louder. You see Derek’s lack of social skills as he tries to avoid a conversation. He then insults Craig. Craig then says “that’s not very nice, I think I’ll kill myself. “ He then jumps under the train that goes past. We then see Craig in the cafe walking around as if he owned it and talking to people. He then spots Craig and follows him shopping. We then see Derek again with his learning difficulties at the butchers to make us feel even sorrier for him. It then goes back to cafe when Derek meets the rest of the gang. Here we see how the gang want to be in the movies so much when they act a bit out from the movies. The next scene is at school where we see how the movies influence them; the children are swapping guns with each other. All of them are crowding around Craig and another kid. They all run to there seats when the teacher comes and we see that they fear the teacher by running to their desks. The teacher asks them to put all guns on the desk and about 8 guns are put on the desk showing us again how there all want to be a gangster. We next see Craig and Derek at the garage where they are unloading stuff from the car. Craig again starts fighting like in the movie, and then we hear Niven shut at Derek and Craig. We then see Derek’s dad open his present and the cigarettes are stolen. Derek’s dad bans Craig from the house saying “we don’t want any trouble“. We then see Niven give Derek a suit which makes him feel more like he’s in the gang because now he’s dressing like them. He gives Derek a bright blue coat which makes him stand out. Blue is also a colour with associate with Innocent people. There is then slow music as they walk off to make us think that he has just joined something bad, or it’s the start of something bad. He then goes home and has an argument with his dad about the coat and cigarettes. He says he bought the stuff; the dad backs down in the end and believes him. Iris then sticks up and says “leave him alone will you, all the boys are dressing like that now anyway”. We see here that Iris sticks up for her brother once again. The next scene is in the army recruitment where it makes us feel sorrier for him. They have to test him to see if he has the illness he says he has. The music begins low and slow and then gets louder as the camera close up on his eyes while he’s having a fit, making us feel sorry for him. We then see Niven get arrested has he fights the police in a struggle while firing a gun. Craig’s two other mates run away while Derek and Craig stare watching. Derek then has a fit on the way home, The Dad runs out and tries to help him while the music gets louder and a close up on his eyes. This lets us see how much his dad cared about him because his dad was nearly crying when he had the fit. Derek and Iris start talking how he’s not going to see Craig anymore. Craig insults Iris and Derek shouts swears at Craig, we then see their friendship break up. Next scene is in court at Niven’s trial, the judge is having a go at him and it has a close up of the judge’s face. We see Derek and his family hear the verdict on a radio, dad says that he’s glad they got Derek away from Craig. Derek goes to Craig’s house and shouts out he’s sorry; this scene we see how Craig still hasn’t grown up has he falls on the bed and starts crying while holding his gun. We see how vulnerable he is here. Derek gets the butcher’s key in next scene and quickly runs to the gang and says he’s got a job for them because he wants to get back into the gang because he hasn’t really had friends before. Then we back to the house where Derek is inside and his mates are trying to find a way to get him out. The dad tells Derek to go away, then Vince comes in a disguise and the dad is suspicious of him at first, but then gets to like him because he thinks that Derek has found some good friends. When his dad says you should go out, Derek goes upstairs to get his keys, we see a close up here and slow music as it looks like Derek is considering whether going through with his plan. This is the last shot of him being innocent. The music makes us feel like something bad is going to happen soon and is played for a long time. The next scene is when Vince and Tel go away when they see the butcher is still in the shop. The same tune is being repeated. Derek’s says to Vince when he goes away “some gang we are”. When we see them climbing over the gate there is a girl praying. Which contrast with what they are doing as she is asking god to forgive the trespasses. She then tells her mum who tells her husband who phones the police. Craig then starts putting Pier Pressure on Derek to do the robbery. He keeps switching from Craig loading the gun to the police station. After every bullet loading we see another policeman running out. This builds the tension up. We see Derek get worried when he hears the police and then tells Craig to give the gun up. We see how crazy Craig is here as he fires anywhere and shouting stuff. When he shoots the policeman, everything goes still and everything goes silent. Derek moves towards Craig and Craig tells him to stop. He turns on his mate here and shows he will do anything to get away. We have a close up on each others faces. When Craig runs out of bullets we hear him in desperation trying to fire the gun as the policeman is holding a gun moving closer to him. Craig keeps pulling the trigger although he knows it is out of ammo. He doesn’t want to face the punishment so tries to commit suicide or get away by jumping off the building. We then see the policeman funeral where there are a lot of policeman and they say justice will be done which sounds like someone will pay with there lives for this. We then go to the court where the camera moves around the court showing us everyone inside. We see Craig deny what he said. When Derek is being questioned we see he has bruises which makes us think he has been ill treated by the guards. This makes us feel sorrier for him because he didn’t shoot anybody. People start chucking questions at him and he gets nervous and scared. The camera does a close up on his eyes has it looks like he is starting to have a fit. When the verdict is said we see close up on Craig, Derek and the judge face. We have slow music while Derek stares at Craig in the cell. Craig then starts to realise the situation and feels guilty about what has happened to Derek. When his family comes we see Derek smiling and putting on a happy face and trying to keep spirits up. He talks like everything is alright and he’ll be out soon. Prison warden also thinks he’s innocent and keeps him happy by saying he’ll be out soon. We then see Derek’s mum start crying at home as she realises that her son might die soon when there appeal is turned down. The next scene Derek starts talking like he’ll die and starts believing it. Dad begins to panic and says “I’ll write to the queen, there’s nothing else we can do”. While he is writing it he breaks down into tears and the music is played and a close up on his face. Derek talks like he’ll be out and the family are trying to keep a smile for him. We then see his dad faint when he hears from the commons. When Derek dictates the letter we hear him laugh a bit. The camera slowly moves into Derek’s face. We see the family at home and the clock ticking away. The clock slowly gets louder. Derek then signs the letter which reminds us of his metal age and his illness and makes us feel sorry for him again. We see Derek’s dad go out onto the street, He’s the only person there as we think the country is silent for him. We then see him praying with a priest. Zooms in on the clock at home when it turns 9am. Everything speeds up and the person takes Derek and says “everything will be alright son”. Which it won’t be because he will die, we then hear Derek breathing heavily as the bag is put over his head. This makes us feel sorry for him and draws us into the film. It goes all white as if he’s gone to heaven. The camera is moving as if its Derek’s ghost, it goes back to the house where everyone is crying and stops on the clock, the clock then stops.   This film draws us into as if we knew Derek because we saw different parts of his earlier life. We also feel sorry because he didn’t fire the gun and he has an illness. The end bit draws us in as it speeds up all of a sudden and then slows down when he’s killed. The director used close ups very well when he had a fit to make us feel sorry for him. The use of music was good as well has it made us feel really sad for him when he was having a fit. They also used clothing well with Derek’s bright blue coat when everyone else was wearing a dark black coat. Derek lack of social skills made him think that if he got them a job then he would be accepted again, which nearly everyone wants.