Andrew Lancaster’s Accidents Happen tells the tale of fifteen year old Billy Conway (Harrison Gilbertson), an immensely accident prone young man whose life turns around after he causes a fatal car “accident”. Geena Davis plays Billy’s depressed yet immensely strong willed mother, who is dealing with an unwanted divorce an alcoholic son and another son left brain dead after a horrific family accident. The concept of Accidents Happen is self explanatory really, but it is the dissection of how exactly the accidents happen that is the most interesting element of the overall story. The slow motion editing effects during the course of the accidents supports this narrative theme by creating an illusion of time which acts in highlighting the significance and intricacy of the particular moments.

Fish Tank provides a view into the life of 15-year-old Mia (Katie Jarvis), living in a British housing estate with her mother and younger sister. Her life is far from idyllic- she truants from school, is bored and lonely, and spends most of her time wandering around picking fights. There is no evidence of friends other than one that is dispatched in the opening of the film. Dancing is Mia’s sole interest, and she sneaks away to an empty apartment for her only moments of relaxation. Her home life is fairly grim, with no apparent father, a disinterested mother, antagonistic sister and no privacy. Her mother is young but worn looking, and Mia and her sister are viewed mostly as an inconvenience, and seem to have been unplanned accidents. One morning Conor (Michael Fassbender), her mother’s new boyfriend, appears in the kitchen and Mia is antagonistic, but fascinated. His presence dramatically changes the dynamics of the household and jolts Mia from her routine.

'Fame' operates with the emotional and narrative complexity of advertising and porn, engaging it's audience in the pursuit of the spectacle for it's own ends. The message is 'Success', which sounds a bit like the word 'sex' with the word 'sucks' tacked onto the beginning.

Quiet Chaos is a film adaptation of the award winning (Italy’s highest literary award, The Strega Prize) book by Sandro Veronesi. Nanni Moretti plays Pietro, a man with a high demand job, who has just lost his wife in an accident and is now left to solely care for his daughter, played by Blu Yoshimi. Pietro drops his daughter at school for the first time after his wifes death and overcome by sorrow, he promises to wait for her outside of the school until she finishes for the day. In this time, Pietro watches the world surrounding the school, and finds that he desires to return there the next day, and the day after. Eventually Pietro establishes routines and relationships in this little pocket of the world that he inhabits in the park outside of his daughter’s school.