Fish Tank Analysis #2

The Kidnapping scene

This scene begins with Mia seeing Keira (Connor's daughter) and recognising that she is vulnerable as she is out of sight from her parents. Looking out for witnesses, she seems to be some sort of natural criminal, this reflects on her background as an underclass person and represents people of her class negatively.

As Mia runs off with Keira, she uses persuasive language that wouldn't usually be used when communicating with a child; her tone of voice is aggressive and she swears at Keira. This shows how Mia herself was brought up by just her mother and how she treated Mia as a child. 

Further evidence of this shows when Keira runs away from Mia and then gets caught by her, after a minute or so of Mia being kicked in the shins by the child, she pushes the child into the nearby lake. This shows that Mia does not know how to handle a child at her young age through lack of experience with a child who is not her little sister (who she shouts abuse at and fights with regularly). 

This is contrasted slightly when she pulls the child from the water and takes her home. Mia seems caring towards Keira now that she has been made upset by her. This shows that Mia has some moral standards and feels some guilt for pushing the child into the lake. This is one of the few times the audience sees Mia showing any emotion towards something other than aggressive anger, a sign that she is starting to change for the better and growing up from the hostile "chav" child that she was at the beginning.