Boy

Boy- what the movie was about
Boy is obsessed with Michael Jackson in particular, his dance moves and his little brother Rocky possibly possesses 'powers'. The pair are trying to find their potential (and the meaning of the word "potential").
In Boy's eyes, his dad is a hero: a deep-sea diver, war veteran, rugby captain and close relation of Michael Jackson. But in reality his dad is doing jail time and is a member of the three-man Crazy Horses gang. While his nana is at a funeral, the dad returns home and Boy is confronted with the man he thought he remembered.


Boy
Expository opening/set up: Boy is at school, Boy introduces his family. The end of the school scenes where Boy is doing the detention and the teacher walks out of the classroom, and the fact that Boy doesn’t know what potential means shows the tone of the film exponentially, then how the teacher doesn’t tell boy what it means as the school day has ended is showing the culture where they’re living. We see Boy in the car alone with Leaf talking to him intimately, we see this as Leaf being one of the closest friends, we also see as boy is making up what happened at school, he’s living a fantasy world, the life he wishes he was living.

Inciting event: while boy’s nana is away at a funeral. The father turns up.

Intensification/complication/development: father isn’t looking to be a dad, but simply to get what he wants and leaves.
The next we see of Boy’s realization when his father asks him to call him shogun instead of dad.


Climax: when we see Boy beating up his father. Boy realizes what kind of man his father is. When the gang is at the pub and Boy and Rocky are in the car we see Boy putting his father’s glasses on, and he’s imagining his father as Michael Jackson , yet the vision ends before the fight is over and Boy sees his father getting beat up, we see Boy seeing his father for who he is, he isn’t the hero Boy thought he was, then when his father runs over Leaf. He decided he isn’t going to forgive him for killing the most important thing to him.

Epilogue: When the father and two kids are sitting around the mother’s grave. This scene is the closing scene; it signified a new beginning