In the Name of the British People: Words and Democracy in Three Post-Brexit Films

At a time when the British political scene and media environment have been saturated with references to “the people” people’s voice”, films may seem ideal means question what it “represent” something or someone, reveal how term of “people”, while being overused misused, offers floating signifier that conjures up all types projections. This article focuses on three whose reception has skewed by context Brexit, more particularly issues related referendum concomitant instrumentalisation notion voice”. My contention is interrogate very representation, namely representing nation its “people” means. Instead claiming they convey “true” voice people, each film dramatises staging battle words, which thus construed as essence democratic debate. Even specifically, reflection power words through cinematographic tools. In case, albeit obvious stylistic differences, both mise en scène montage give proper dialectical dimension discourse insofar narratives are built series ruptures contrasts orchestrated into an organic whole.