This is
England
This is
England, is a British drama movie. It was produced 2006, written and directed
by Shane Meadows. The movie is about a small boy named Shaun, in 1983, when
Margaret Thatcher was prime minister, and the Falklands war took place.
Shaun lives
in a small town in England with is mother. His father died in the war and Shaun
was a bullying victim, because of his old clothes. One day on his way home from
school, Shaun bumped in to a skinhead gang, who treated him well. In the lead
of the gang was Woody. For the gang, everything is about the ska- culture,
music, Dr martens shoes and jeans. Their lives are all about having fun.
When
Woody’s old friend Combo gets out of prison, forced the group to split in two
pieces. Combo is a National front
activist, and Shaun decides to join his group.
I think the
reason he joined Combos group was because of that Combo told him that he didn’t
want more people to die for nothing, as his father did.
Combo doesn’t want more “pakis” to enter
England, for example because he thinks that the unemployment problems in
England is already to big, and he don’t want the “pakis” to steal works from
the English unemployed.
This is
England is dedicated to Shaun, or Thomas Turgooses real mother, Sharon
Turgoose, who died in lung cancer 29th of December 2005, just months
after the recording of the movie was done.
This is
England review
The movie This is England gives everyone who
watched the movie a real insight in the English culture during those years. Its
very reality likely and well made. But I don’t know if I liked the movie as a
movie I would watch a Friday night in my sofa. I would prefer to watch this
movie when I want to learn more about England, for example in school.
In the movie is it a lot of profanity and it’s
a very bad language, but I think it explains much of the culture they live in,
but I think the bad language occurs to often. It’s very exhausting after
awhile, when you just hear the bad words. I think the movie was hard to understand
sometimes.
This is England is a unique movie and describes England’s bad
and good sides.
