Michael

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2012, 8 minutes

a young boy growing up in a signal parent family with very little money

Michael is a short film about a young boy growing up in a signal parent family, his mother struggles to make ends meet and is distressed that she can’t provide the type of life for Michael that she would like, so when Michael shows her a letter about a school trip she can’t afford it. Mike can’t understand why his mum can’t afford these things when his friends can. Of course mike shouts that his friends are all going and doesn’t understand that both of his friends’ parents are working and as such can afford to send their kids on such trips. He storms out to go and see his friend Graeme. We see that Graeme has everything he could wanted TVs, computer games, laptops and more, Graeme despite having everything a ten year old could ever want treats his mother with destine. When asked to move his shoes he screams at his mother and won’t put down the game, his mother asks him again and still won’t go, instead he gripes about his mother to Mike and the way Graeme speaks about his mother shocks him. Mike begins to realise his own mother dose so much for him and he feels bad about how he shouted at her. Leaving at the first opportunity he gets he goes home find his mum rummaging around the house trying to scrape every penny she can together to send him on his trip. Realising how much his mum loves him he apologises for shouting at her, goes to hug her his mum is taken aback at this she stops what she is doing lost in this sudden moment of understanding her young son is showing from seemingly nowhere.

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