“This is England” is a British
movie released in 2006, written and directed by Shane Meadows. The story is about
Shaun, a young skinhead (12 years old) that lives in England in 1983. Before, I
saw another movie about a British child that lives in England in that time;
“Billy Elliot” is the name, but is totally different in terms of plot, anyway
Billy Elliot also is a good movie.
This is England tells Shaun story;
a child whose father died in the Falklands War, this fact is decisive along the
story. In the beginning is shown to Shaun in the school, fighting against a boy
that made a joke about his father's death, Shaun has no doubt in fight for this
reason.
Later, when leaves the school he
find with a skinhead group, whose leader is Woody (this character is very
friendly) so they start to talk, Woody feels sympathy for Shaun, and in a
moment, Woody invites to Shaun to join the group. Shaun is a solitary child,
then he enters to the group and start to dress similar to Woody, in fact he
begins to drees like a skinhead style, even shaved. These scenes that show the
Shaun transformation are very funny; for example when he and the rest of the group
enter to the houses and begin to make their own. One of my favorite scenes is
when Shaun and Smell begin a romance.
The story change, in a radical way
when Combo appears, he expresses nationalist and racist views, and try to
influence the group to adopt his views. Shaun is influenced by Combo, because
he uses the death of Shaun's father as a means to influence and keep to Shaun
following his ideas. The first time when Combo appears with other guy, is so
uncomfortable, in general Combo is a guy who causes discomfort.
Finally Shaun realizes what kind of
person is Combo product of conflict with Milky, who apparently dies, but he not
dies.
Caught my attention the actuation of
Thomas Turgoose who interprets to Shaun, I think that is an excellent performance.
In general terms I found this movie very good, absolutely recommended.
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