Fish Tank is really good, isn’t it? Except watching it I couldn’t help feel it was basically composed of several other films. Notably Pavee Lackeen ( from which it borrows much of its liminal space, roadside/constant traffic stuff, and troubled central girl ) Bullet Boy in its gazing off the balconies/ framing of the estates spaces and the blocks of flats, (maybe even Nick Love’s positively tropical vision of estate life Goodbye Charlie Bright ) and Morvern Callar in its visual tone and it’s emphasis on the sense of touch. Not that I want to negate some really superb moments of course, but in the end it’s a bit, don’t-worry-she–gets-out, as is Charlie Bright, as is Shifty. And the final shot of the heart-shaped helium-filled silver balloon cutting across the Estatescape provoked a certain amount of meh-ness in me I have to say.