Use of themes in British Social Realism

What is the link between British Social Realism Themes and the real world?
The link between British Social Realism Themes and the real world is that they both show events, issues and problems that happen in reality, everyday life. Big elements of British life invole these events and the news and British Social Realism Themes both inform the British audiences of these events that occur commonly. In addition to this they show people suffering from real problems such as from abuse, domestic violence, rape. They both have the same pupose to inform, notify the Britsh public of the real world. The themes that both BSR and the news portray are religion, violence, abuse, rascism and drugs. The film Fish Tank shows child abuse as Mia was 15, plays the main character was underage and she had, had intercourse with an older man.
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What is unique about how themes are explored in British social realism films?
British social realism explores the themes in real detail, further depth they express the themes in extreme ways such as in 'Nil by Mouth' the theme of domestic violence was portrayed as being disgusting revolting unacceptable. In BSR they explore the suffering and whole process of the theme, the recovery of the issue, the negative downsides of the problem, usually resulting in sad endings. The film 'This is England' covers a whole range of themes in extreme intense ways, they showed racism, discrimination, violence, petty crimes and history. They address the issues to make the audience fully aware of the theme and to get a reaction out of them.

Is there any themes which are essential to all British social realist films? What are they? Why are they essential?
The themes which are essential in producing a British Social Realist film is violence as that is a key theme portrayed in all BSR, an huge amount of BSR involves violence. BSR films such as: Kidulthood, This Is England, Looking For Eric, Fish Tank, In Bruges, Nil By Mouth etc. They use this theme to portray the hardship that Britons face in everyday, poverty is also illustrated in many BSR, this reflects the ideologies of BSR, how they focus on failures and the negatives of British people, not being able to thrive in a society and up getting involved in corruption and crime. These themes are best applicable as they define and demonstrate British ideologies. In addition to this they are also able to relate these themes to their niche audience, as they can relate themselves to these events.