Suzy's Socialism Imposed In The Film 56 Up By Michael Apted

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“56 Up” (2012) Directed by Michael Apted, is a documentary that follows the lives of fourteen British children every seven years, starting at age seven. By doing this, he could see how each child had developed every 7 years. One of the children was a girl named Suzanne “Suzy” Lusk, a girl from a wealthy family with parents who divorced by the time she was 14. Over the years it can be clearly seen how she has developed as an individual, and adapted to society. There are a number of factors that are responsible for her behaviour over the years, such as her family, school and even class. One aspect that shapes Suzy’s socialism is the fact that she is a girl from an upper-class family. Because she is so used to getting what she wants as a child,