"The Butcher Boy"

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This analytical essay highlights the weaknesses as well as the strengths of the movie, "The Butcher Boy", directed by Neil Jordan. It discusses the mediating role of American pop culture and its affects on the film's adolescent protagonist, Francie. The paper illustrates how her imagination grew from the fictional stories of popular media, to create a strange reality in her daily life, where real life events became like fiction.

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"The setting of the film is rural Ireland and the timeline reflects the happenings and the political free environment of 60's. Eamonn Owens, a new entrant in the film industry plays the lead as Francie a 12-year old boy with severe mental problems, with the devastating affects of the American Pop Culture that worsened the child's mind. The disturbed Francie is the intricate and melancholic product of his broken family with two demented parents. The role of the alcoholic father is well played by the popular Stephen Rea and Aisling O'Sullivan performs the character of the capricious overdosed mother of Francie."

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