This is England
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Movie Reviews of This is England
Movie Review: A powerful and unforgettable movie
Summary: 4 Stars
"This is England" is strong and unsettling in the way powerful and violent literature can often be. The story is a simple one: A youngster, Shaun Fields (in a flawless performance by newcomer, Tomo Turgoose), lives with his mother in England after losing his father in the Falklands during the early 1980's. Bullied, ridiculed, or ignored by his classmates, he is befriended by a gang of skinheads, led by the likeable Woody, (Joe Gilgun).
Shaun's role gradually changes from mascot to convert as he begins participating in increasingly horrifying acts of violence until the movie's brutal climax.
Like literary classics such as "Native Son" or "A Lesson Before Dying," "This is England" is as much about youthful initiation and class disenfranchisement as it is about racism. Due to this movie's violent realism, it can be difficult to watch at times, but it captures a period in history, as well as the universality of needing to belong, in a remarkable and unforgettable way.
Movie Review: This is England
Summary: 4 Stars
'This Is England' is a pretty stark and hard hitting look at skin head culture and life in 1980's England. It follows a young boy who becomes friends with a group of skin heads and the things in society that influenced them. It is expertly inter-cut with realtime footage from the Falklands war and other events from 1983 (when this film is set) and the actors are all pretty good at portraying the influences in England at that time. Some of the violence is quite brutal and it is depressing to see such harsh attitudes that were in England then. The main character is quite good in this, his first film, and the rest of the cast add the right mix of naivety (to be influenced so readily) and menace that they needed to have for this story to have it's full impact. This film has been highly lauded and it is very good indeed. It's well worth a viewing, but it can be quite graphic at times. A solid four stars.
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Movie Review: A disturbing vision of English skinhead culture.
Summary: 4 Stars
The violence at first evoked memories of A Clockwork Orange. I am tempted to label it as nihilism, but these losers believe in some kind of neo-British purity, trying to recapture the global prominence which Britain once enjoyed. To do so, they must terrorize various immigrants who they do not feel are worthy.
You almost get a sense of how Nazism may have taken hold of Germany in the 1920's and 1930's.
Worth seeing, but it's one of those films I could not exactly call an "enjoyable" movie experience.
If this IS England, I'll pass ....
Movie Review: Movie: This is England
Summary: 4 Stars
This movie is iteresting and strange, somewhat sick and twisted. Its about a kid who falls in with the "wrong crowd" of which he is significantly younger than. It's almost like an English version of the movie Kids... If you like Kids, American History X, Made in Brittain, Gummo, Requiem for a Dream, Pallindromes, Alpha Dogs and other such movies you will enjoy this movie!Movie Review: Movie This Is England
Summary: 4 Stars
Recently saw this movie through my netflix account, and my 19 year old fell in love with it! Very excited to be able to find it on Amazon for an amazing price for his birthday.