Mise en Scene - Lee Baker

The mise en scene of this film shows a desperate and poor society struggling to survive the collapse of the local steel industry showing the number of ex employees of the steel mill out of work and struggling for work and finance which the story also reveals the other impacts of lack of work had on men of that era including relationship problems, self esteem issues and broken families. This is represented through mise en scene through the dark and dreary settings/lighting, performance of the actors including the desperation of keeping his son by Gary and the suicide attempt by Lomper.