Weekend
Friday, February 24, 2017
Weekend - a film written and directed by Andrew Haigh in 2011 - explores themes of masculinity in ways starkly different to the ways in which Skyfall and Kingsman: The Secret Service do. Mainly, Weekend explores representations of masculinity that perhaps subverts the usual representations and stereotypes, challenging the conventions that typically define society's perception of masculinity. For example, the film does not adhere to the concept of masculinity only being valid if it also relates to heterosexuality. Likewise, whilst Skyfall and Kingsman: The Secret Service rely on action scenes and themes of violence and action to represent masculinity, Weekend does not represent masculinity in such an aggressive manner. This is likely to be led by the genre of the film, being that it is a romance drama rather than an action film like Skyfall and Kingsman: The Secret Service.
As well as representing gender, Weekend also represents issues such as homosexuality and national identity - as Glen discusses both attitudes in the UK and in the USA. The themes of the film include love, sex and drugs which makes for a somewhat controversial narrative.
This film was made on a low budget of £120,000 and this is apparent in the element of realism that the film possessed as it is arguably cheaper to create film based on reality than it is one that requires special effects, such as Skyfall which had a budget of an estimated $200,000,000.
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