Anyone seen "This Is England"?
 

It is a movie about a child growing up in england during the 80s during the argentina invasion and skin head population. It is a fantastic movie and is apparently very true to the time. I highly recomend it especially if you where a child in the 80s in England, please let me know about your htouhgts on the movie.

I've seen it. I though it was well done and very heart-felt. It's not the type of thing I normally watch, and it seemed very realistic to me. Of course, I didn't grow up in England or in the 80's, so I wouldn't know.

I enjoyed Shane Meadows' earlier movie, Dead Man's Shoes because like Storymilo, I wasn't a youth in the U.K. during that time period. While that doesn't stop me from being able to enjoy a well made movie with great acting, it does put me in a different position than someone who grew up in that time period, or even around the skin head culture.

Saw it, liked it. Good soundtrack too.

Superb movie. Although I wasn't into the music or fashion at that time, I was the same age at the films setting and the main characters sense of isolation and lack of identity is something I can easily relate to.

It's a film of small moments for me and capturing the minutiae is something that Writer/Director Shane Meadows is so good at. As Sidewinder said- superb soundtrack that holds up on it's own.

Meadows previous film Dead Man's Shoes is nothing short of a masterpiece and his earlier film A Room For Romeo Brass also starring Paddy Consindine is almost a trial run in many respects for This Is England. Apart from a couple of ill advised cliched shots, This Is England succeeds admirably in keeping with it's low budget/working class roots and not becoming a sentimental/mawkish piece that so many films regarding growing up fall into.

Nicely summed up Lee.

Edit: I'd add more, but I'm bladdered. You've no idea how long that took me to type man. :/

Yup. Liked most of Meadows' fims, particularly Dead man's shoes. He does get a bit repetitive, but still a very good director.

I think we could probably put that down to his own education and experiences in that he doesn't seem to be the sort of director to make a film that he doesn't feel some affinity with. This is both his greatest strength and weakness I guess. I don't think he will ever step outside of what he knows which means he lacks versatility but it if means he continues to make films that don't have to appeal to an international market but keep to his roots, then I'm all for it.

All too often we (British) make films with an international audience in mind which is a shame. Many European film makers make films for their own markets and we celebrate that so why not our own market? We have a lost a lot of our individuality in this respect and it's film makers such as Meadows, Roach and Leigh that restore my faith in our own market.

Plus he gives us what we relate too.
Far more important than pandering to a foriegn audience.
Although that is appealing to those with a love of all things R=eNGLISH

sEE ^