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* NiceGuy: Mr. Farthing, despite initially coming off as dismissive of Billy, is the nicest of his teachers.
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In the mining town of Barnsley in Yorkshire, fifteen-year-old Billy Casper (David Bradley) is the child pariah of the area. He is bullied at home and school by everyone, making his mother feel as if she can never understand him. This is probably because Billy has a history of stealing, but has left it behind him (although he'll occasionally steal some eggs and milk), and nobody wants to trust him. With the whole world seemingly against him, Billy becomes interested in kestrels and uses his skills of deception, sneakiness, and theft to try and train the animal falconry.
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In the mining town of Barnsley in Yorkshire, fifteen-year-old Billy Casper (David Bradley) is the child pariah of the area. He is bullied at home and school by everyone, making his mother feel as if she can never understand him. This is probably because Billy has a history of stealing, but has left it behind him (although he'll occasionally steal some eggs and milk), and nobody wants to trust him. With the whole world seemingly against him, Billy becomes interested in kestrels and uses his skills of deception, sneakiness, and theft to try and train the animal falconry.
his wild-caught bird for falconry.
His passion and achievement in his new hobby win Billy some respect and friends at school, but unfortunately not with his own family.
His passion and achievement in his new hobby win Billy some respect and friends at school, but unfortunately not with his own family.
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* SuckySchool: In Billy's school, nearly all of the teachers are as cruel as his bullying fellow students.
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* HateSink: Billy's mother, his brother, Jud, and most of Billy's teachers are all written to be as nasty and unpleasant as possible.
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* HateSink: While Billy's mother, his brother, Jud, and brother Jud is probably the most of Billy's despicable character, his mother and teachers are all written to be as nasty and unpleasant as possible.aren't far behind.
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Up To Eleven has been scrapped as a trope, and "see [other trope]" is not context, while "for definite" is Word Cruft, not context..
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* AllOfTheOtherReindeer: Billy is not only bullied at home, but at school, too. [[UpToEleven Even by the teachers.]]
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* AllOfTheOtherReindeer: Billy is not only bullied at home, but at school, too. [[UpToEleven Even by the teachers.]]
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* ButtMonkey: Billy for definite.
* CharacterDevelopment: For Billy after he adopts Kes the Kestrel. He steadily comes out of his shell, but his overall dissociated attitude doesn't change too much.
* CharacterDevelopment: For Billy after he adopts Kes the Kestrel. He steadily comes out of his shell, but his overall dissociated attitude doesn't change too much.
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** For Billy after he adopts Kes the Kestrel. He steadily comes out of his shell, but his overall dissociated attitude doesn't change too much.
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* ChildHater: The teacher characters are very likely this, given how they constantly treat their students. See SadistTeacher and WouldHurtAChild.
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* ChildHater: The teacher characters are very likely this, given how they constantly treat their students. See SadistTeacher and WouldHurtAChild.
* DisappearedDad: Billy's father left the family when Billy was a young boy; his mother believes that growing up without a father has contributed to the lad's apparent lack of direction or ambition.
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* HateSink: Billy's mother, his brother, Judd, and most of Billy's teachers are all written to be as nasty and unpleasant as possible.
* HiddenDepths: To every other kid in school, Billy's kestrel training hobby comes off as this, especially since he's usually so quiet and boorish. When he makes a presentation showing his passion for it, the other kids start paying more attention to him.
* HiddenDepths: To every other kid in school, Billy's kestrel training hobby comes off as this, especially since he's usually so quiet and boorish. When he makes a presentation showing his passion for it, the other kids start paying more attention to him.
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* HateSink: Billy's mother, his brother, Judd, Jud, and most of Billy's teachers are all written to be as nasty and unpleasant as possible.
*HiddenDepths: HiddenDepths:
** To every other kid in school, Billy's kestrel training hobby comes off as this, especially since he's usually so quiet and boorish. When he makes a presentation showing his passion for it, the other kids start paying more attention to him.
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** To every other kid in school, Billy's kestrel training hobby comes off as this, especially since he's usually so quiet and boorish. When he makes a presentation showing his passion for it, the other kids start paying more attention to him.
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* MeaningfulName: Kes is obviously short for kestrel, the name of the species of the bird.
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** Kes is obviously short for kestrel, the name of the species of the bird.
** Kes is obviously short for kestrel, the name of the species of the bird.
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* OopNorth: This film is set in Yorkshire.
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* OopNorth: This film is set in Yorkshire.Yorkshire, and the characters speak in the local dialect.
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* SmallNameBigEgo: The PE teacher seems to think he's hot shit at football despite being overweight and shorter than most of the boys in his class, treating the football game as SeriousBusiness and blatantly breaking the rules to get an edge.
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* SmallNameBigEgo: The PE teacher seems to think he's hot shit at football despite being overweight and shorter than most of the boys in his class, treating the football game as SeriousBusiness and blatantly breaking the rules to get an edge.edge (although the team of which he appoints himself captain still loses 2-1).
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* WorldOfJerkass: Excluding Billy,Kes, and one of Billy's teachers, Mr. Farthing, every other character in the movie is shown to be a callous, cruel, and unrepentant {{Jerkass}} with ''zero'' empathy who like to go out their way to make Billy and the other kids' lives miserable.
* WouldHurtAChild: As mentioned on SadistTeacher, most teachers in ''Kes'' like to yell at kids for very minor infractions and even slap them or hit them with a cane, [[ValuesDissonance as was common practice in schools throughout the early to mid 20th century]].
* WouldHurtAChild: As mentioned on SadistTeacher, most teachers in ''Kes'' like to yell at kids for very minor infractions and even slap them or hit them with a cane, [[ValuesDissonance as was common practice in schools throughout the early to mid 20th century]].
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* WorldOfJerkass: Excluding Billy,Kes, Billy, Kes, and one of Billy's teachers, Mr. Farthing, every other character in the movie is shown to be a callous, cruel, and unrepentant {{Jerkass}} with ''zero'' empathy who like to go out their way to make Billy and the other kids' lives miserable.
* WouldHurtAChild:As mentioned on SadistTeacher, most Most teachers in ''Kes'' like to yell at kids for very minor infractions and even slap them or hit them with a cane, [[ValuesDissonance as was common practice in schools throughout the early to mid 20th century]].
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* SoundtrackDissonance: The film's score is overall very light and whimsical, which heavily contrasts against the bleak setting and tone, [[Administrivia/TropesAreTools though it helps to keep the film from sliding into total soul-crushing nihilism]].
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* SoundtrackDissonance: The film's score is overall very light and whimsical, which heavily contrasts against the bleak setting and tone, [[Administrivia/TropesAreTools though it helps does help to keep the film from sliding into total soul-crushing nihilism]].
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''Kes'' is a 1969 film by Creator/KenLoach, based on the novel ''A Kestrel for a Knave'' by Barry Hines. It starred (relatively) unknown actors with perhaps a handful that people might recognise, which has led to the movie being categorised by film historians as a [[{{realism}} social realist]] movie. It was Loach's second film that he ever made and became a BreakthroughHit when released, although the thick-accented characters made the film stumble a little outside of the UK.
''Kes'' is a 1969 film by Creator/KenLoach, based on the novel ''A Kestrel for a Knave'' by Barry Hines. It starred (relatively) unknown actors with perhaps a handful that people might recognise, which has led to the movie being categorised by film historians as a [[{{realism}} social realist]] movie. It was Loach's second film that he ever made and became a BreakthroughHit when released, although the thick-accented characters made the film stumble a little outside of the UK.
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''Kes'' is a 1969 British drama film directed by Creator/KenLoach, [[TheFilmOfTheBook based
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* TeensAreMonsters: Jud. [[spoiler:When Billy doesn't put Jud's bet on, [[DisproportionateRetribution he retaliates]] [[EvilIsPetty by murdering Kes]].]] Though Jud appears to be in his early 20s.
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* TeensAreMonsters: Jud. [[spoiler:When Billy doesn't put Jud's bet on, [[DisproportionateRetribution he retaliates]] [[EvilIsPetty by murdering Kes]].]] Though Jud appears to be in his early 20s.Jud's age is uncertain, but Freddie Fletcher was 19 when the film was made.
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* OhCrap: Billy's reaction when he learns that Jud would have won over £10 had he placed the bet. [[note]]£10 in 1969 would become approximately £142 in 2021. Bloody hell indeed, Billy.[[/note]]
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* OhCrap: Billy's reaction when he learns that Jud would have won over £10 won £16 had he placed the bet. [[note]]£10 [[note]]£16 in 1969 would become approximately £142 £225 in 2021.2022. Bloody hell indeed, Billy.[[/note]]
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his old comprehensive school's only been open 10 years, he's 21 maximum
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* TeensAreMonsters: Jud. [[spoiler:When Billy doesn't put Jud's bet on, [[DisproportionateRetribution he retaliates]] [[EvilIsPetty by murdering Kes]].]] Though Jud appears to be at least in his early 20s.
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* TeensAreMonsters: Jud. [[spoiler:When Billy doesn't put Jud's bet on, [[DisproportionateRetribution he retaliates]] [[EvilIsPetty by murdering Kes]].]] Though Jud appears to be at least in his early 20s.
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* KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler:Jud gets no comeuppance for murdering Kes aside from being [[AdultsAreUseless weakly told off by his mum]], which is a pretty regular occurrence anyway.]]
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* KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler:Jud gets no comeuppance for murdering Kes aside from losing out on the week's unpaid leave from work he could have taken with his racing winnings and being [[AdultsAreUseless weakly told off by his mum]], which is a pretty regular occurrence anyway.]]
