Social realism is a subgenre of film, based on capturing the British working class honestly whilst critiquing those in power. Many famous films have submerged from this genre, including Trainspotting, I Daniel Blake and Kes.
Mike Leigh is famous for his Social Realism films, he aims to present "emotional, subjective, intuitive, instinctive, vulnerable films." One of his most notable pieces of social realism is his 2002 film "All or Nothing", which follows follows a disrupted family on a council estate in South London and how they are brought together through a tragedy. His most famous film "naked", starring David Thewlis follows an unemployed man in Britain and follows his spiral.
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