kes

No matter what. Even if you are considered to be nothing, worse even - the scum of the earth, if you really do love something and want it, you do that. without reason and the only two things pushing you is your self, and passion. That is what the film is about. not a boy and a bird, but a story about true passion that not even the direst of cruelty and the worst kind of poverty  can destroy. This boy has never had anything as beautiful as this bird. He has never cared and loved something so amazing yet he finds that he loves it and will care for it till the day he dies. And nobody can see it apart from one of his Teachers who sees this boy and can also see how wasted he will be when he grows up. 
The writer doesn't just empathise with the boy but also his older brother who in fact is the boy will soon become when he's older. How? His older brother works in a mine and all he can do is drink on the weekends. That is what our hero will become an overworked, beaten ruffian and a money drinker. The human embodiment of hatred and laziness who stamps on other peoples dreams because he never got a chance like that. This is what the boy does not know but what he secretly fears. Our protagonist realizes that he has found the one beautiful thing that he will never get again. A true experience and the meaning of true passion.

When watching Kes I had to watch the entire film with subtitles because I couldn't cut through the thick ruffian accents.