outside the household be a different world and the family struggle to tread the line between dad authority and their hope and dream . the period be capture while the bakelite light swithes and the georgian floorpan and the picture rail and the wall paper and the short skirt and the cheeky lad and the mini van and shiny modern mangle . the location be capture while a wind lash glacier hewn rocky landscape and wall of local stone and community and freedom . but there be much much more while childhood and happiness and sensuality and pride and value and freedom and authority and rebellion and violence ( in the deep sense ) and love and struggle and puberty and naivety and morality and trust and faith and deceit and machismo and manner and maturity and loss and poverty and sacrifice and horror and acceptence and revelation and comedy and parenthood be all there . ( and in no particular order . ) . this film be a richly woven expression of family tension that be a relevent today a ever . the fact that some of these aren not tackle directly be testament in itself to the attitude of the day but the fact that they be all here be a testament to the acting skill and the story and the direction . if there anything bad about this film and it that all this deeply entrench and wonderfully enact tension be sweep away a little too lightly towards the end . maybe i missunderstand the doom and gloom felt by many teenager really do disappear if they deal with it ( ) maybe the film be try to send even that message too well worth do . what be the film try to say . kid represent parent be young too and parent struggle too and everyone make mistake and everyone learns and thing change and struggle can end happily . parent represent don not try too hard . try to remember that your support be the key to their well be . it sound simplistic doesn not it . sometimes the film feel like that too but it then that you notice how much be be be challenge and uncover . the film be a classic . ( ) not the problem themsleves .