Billy Liar Directed by John Schlesinger

Billy Liar Directed by John Schlesinger

genre: social realism

At the beginning Bill is a huge liar  and doesn’t care about anyone but himself hence the name Billy Liar. Billy acts like a boy but is a full grown adult, who wants to escape a bleak and boring world infested with nagging old people to a dreamed up reality called Ambrosia.

The story is about a man who lies and is living in a fantasy world and can't except the truth. And the downfall that occurs because of it. He acts like a child with his friends and thinks of himself as an amazing liar but soon his world crumbles around him. Then it built back up with one of his girlfriends and his family. Near the end he decides to go to London just after his beloved Grandma (who didn't really like him) died. As he sat down on the train, he thought long and hard but was sad on the train because his fake country was about to disappear. But didn’t get on the train because his home was actually his fake country.

                                                           Fantasies play a big part in this film.

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All his fantasies revolve around him being a big person I.E. a dictator in control, an army corporal, an amazing novel writer, a scriptwriter and wealthy beyond his wildest dreams. However when he gets the chance to become these things - to live out his fantasies and seek real adventure - he declines because his fantasy world is the only one he can live in and as i said not just him but every ones fantasy world is truly home.