This is England

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 29^th 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.