Ken Loach was best known for films such as: I, Daniel Blake (which is a movie about a 59-year-old widowed man who is relying on the welfare after a heart attack), Sorry we missed you (a movie about a family that is in debt), The wind that shakes the barley (a movie about two brothers fighting together against British forces for Irelands independence) and many more. He has received public attention as he raises significant issues in the world within his movies.
Ken Loach's style is social realisms his puts forward his views. He uses black and white for grainier look for realism. Another way he achieves the realism style is by hand- holding the camera. He also makes sure there is traditional dialect as he states when asked about it ” If you ask people to speak differently, you lose more than the voice. Everything about them changes...”
The topics such as issues of poverty in the UK and his socialist views are shown in his movies. A running theme is the idea of struggling, money, or lack of but also family.
Loach’s political party has for most years been in labour and voting for labour. Labour is a left-wing party that has socialist views for example to fund the NHS more, put more money into teaching, try to reduce poverty in the UK. As this is Loach's political party from looking at the synopsizes of the movie can see that it is evident Loach brings his poltical views into his movie with issues that encourage his views.
Some response to his work, in particularly, I, Daniel Blake. ‘I, Daniel Blake is one of Loach’s finest films, a drama of tender devastation...’ and ‘I, Daniel Blake is a dignified film containing moments of hilarity and genuine heartbreak.’
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