Iron-Caged Prison: Cold-Looking Exteriors and Billy Liar

iron-caged prison: In other words, Paris is only liberating for those privileged enough to experience it as such, according to Rabble. The opening shots of John Schlesinger's Billy Liar are similarly attuned to how a city's value resides in the eye of the beholder. Right out the gate, the film, which deals with a young boy's feelings of confinement and suffocation, invites us to see the potential for even this remarkable monument to be an iron-caged prison. As the camera moves through the streets of Yorkshire, there are no wondrous buildings or monuments to behold only indistinguishable flats with cold-looking exteriors. Billy is given the nickname Billy Liar by his family because he spends his days fantasizing about his future as a famous novelist or as the militaristic savior of an imaginary country. Inside one of them lives Billy Fisher Tom Courtenay a twentysomething native who wants nothing more than to escape his parents' company and move to London. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.