Billay Liar Case

Billy Fisher's real world is surrounded by a dull Northern town, a job as clerk in an undertaker's office, a argumentative relationship with his parents, and a potentially explosive one with two girls, noisy Rita and silly Barbara, to whom he has simultaneously become engaged and in love with a third Liz. A compulsive liar, Billy is also ruler and commandant-in-chief of his own fantasy kingdom, Ambrosia, to which he retreats when circumstances become too much for him, and from which he emerges, machine-gun blazing, to take down his enemies in his dreams. Billy has sent some material to a TV comedian, and genuinely believes he has the promise of a job in London. But this illusion doesn't survive an encounter with the comedian; and, simultaneously, all Billy's problems catch up with him.

The movie "Billy Liar" is a 1963 film based on the novel by Keith Waterhouse. It was at the time of the teenage rebellion and the start of the swinging sixties this is reflected in the movie because there are still some 'old Fashioned' People around i.e. Barbara, which tells me that the 'new age' hasn't affected some people yet. And there are also people like Liz (Julie Christie) who are really taking to the new style of living. Billy the main character of the movie periodically escapes the labor of his job at a funeral parlor by conjuring up impossible adventures, usually involving the conquest of women. In one of her first film roles, Julie Christie plays one of three "real" girls who wish that Billy would come down to earth and pop the question.

Where the movie is set and where the family live tells me that they are quite a ordinary family and Billy wants to move out of this normal place because he is not normal, with his Strange imagination and random unneeded lies. I think that this story is bringing up the part of his

Personality that makes him unable to face reality. He also makes up stories just for the sake of it. For example when he tells Barbara that he had a sister but she died but then covered it up by saying that his parents never talk about it. I think that he is a desperate teenager. He got engaged to the two girls, Barbara and Rita so that he can have sex with them. Barbara wanted to wait till they were married and he tried making her split up with him because of the engagement ring that he had gave to Rita. On the other hand, when Billy is with Liz he acts more truthful and she already knows how his personality is. She was willing to marry him and tolerate his lies and imaginary thoughts, but he wasn't ready.

His employer, Shadrack, finds that he has been taking cash and is still in possession of two hundred of the firm's unposted Christmas calendars. Rita and Barbara fight over the engagement ring that they have unsuspectingly been sharing. But Billy still has his hope of escape through Liz, a cheerful, self-reliant