Sophie Gee

There's a lot of camera work that's quite far back from the actors.

So we often are aware of landscape as a whole or something bigger and more

that goes beyond the humans themselves.

And the other thing about it that I thought was really striking or it really struck me is the way that the adults in the film are sort of humiliated in their bodies.

I mean, that's putting it too strongly.

But, you know, Billy as a schoolboy is constantly suffering pain

bodily humiliations he doesn't have his gym kit the PE teacher makes him put on this enormous PE uniform he has the cold shower the boys are often seen looking at one another in a vaguely kind of menacing way they have to take their clothes off in at weird moments so it's got the tenderness of physical humiliation that school kids get but the teachers have it too so Mr Grice when he delivers his monologue he's got stubble he

has a slight stoop.

He's slightly hunched, although he's very tall.

The PE teacher, who's obviously totally ridiculous, he does this jogging thing at the beginning of the scene.

And, you know, wearing his silly little 1960s jogging shorts, his body's absurd.

He's ridiculous.

He's an absurd man.

And so we're just really aware of the tenderness of the humans in the story, as much as we're aware of the tenderness of the natural world and

And Kez the bird.

In fact, Kez isn't tender at all.

Kez is a killing machine.

And it's the humans who are soft and tender.

Yeah, it's got that documentary feel.

It feels like a documentary.