Billy Elliot: Destroying Prejudice with Dance

  Billy Elliot was one of the movies that opened the new millennium. In fact, Stephen Daldry’s film unknowingly brought to the fore a subject that, some 20 years later is still completely relevant. Rather appropriately, it opened the new millennium with sentiments that definitively marked the future and broke with the old. Admittedly, it’s not the first time we’ve seen films about tolerance or breaking genre molds. However, Billy Elliot was different. It was filmed through the eyes of a child who ultimately pursued his dream of being a dancer. Nevertheless, what he didn’t know was that society would…