This Is England
What:
This Is England
Where:
Cinema Nova, Dendy Kino
When:
Now showing
Watch the trailer:
here
Win:
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Twelve-year-old Shaun spends 1983 falling in love with the British skinhead scene. At first, This Is England shows the rarely-seen sweet side of the subculture – fashion, music,rebellious camaraderie – but prepare to feel queasy as Shaun’s new lifeinches with horrible inevitability towards racism, violence, and tears.
Award-winning (and yet occasionally awful) director Shane Meadows usesclever soundtrack choices and part-improvised performances fromnon-professional actors, paying off with a real authenticity oftenmissing from period pieces. It’s both funny and sickening, and asShaun, young actor Thomas Turgoose nails a performance that’shalf-bravado, half-wounded little boy.
But unless you’re having a Billy Pilgrimmoment, you see the end of a movie right before you wander back intothe world; fairly or not, the last five minutes colour everythingthat’s come before. And the final scene of This Is England isappalling: heavy-handed, self-important, and oh so obvious. So see andenjoy the film – but when the Smiths cover kicks in, close your eyes,block your ears, and invent your own ending.
Format: Cinema
Mood: Make a therapy appointment now
Keywords: Shane Meadows
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