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Film: This is England

Plot: This Is England is a 2006 British drama film written and directed by Shane Meadows. The story centres on young skinheads in England in 1983. The film illustrates that skinhead subculture, whose 1960s roots include elements of black culture especially ska, soul, and reggae music, became adopted by white nationalists, which led to divisions within the skinhead scene.
The film is set in an unspecified coastal town in the English Midlands in 1983. Shaun played by Thomas Turgoose, a 12 year-old schoolboy, gets into a fight at school after someone makes an offensive joke about his father, who died in the Falklands War. On his way home Shaun runs into a group of young skinheads led by Woody played by Joe Gilgun, they invite him to join the group. They accept Shaun as a member and he finds a big brother in Woody, while developing a romance with Smell played by Rosamund Hanson, an older girl who dresses in a punky new wave style.
Combo played by Stephen Graham, an older skinhead, returns to the group after a prison sentence. He expresses English nationalist and racist views. The group splits after combo tries to take leas. Shaun stays in Combo's group instead of the apolitical skinheads led by Woody. Combo is impressed by and identifies with Shaun, who in turn sees Combo as a mentor figure. Shaun goes with Combo's group to a National Front meeting. After group member Pukey played by Jack O'Connell, expresses doubt over the group's racist and nationalistic politics, Combo threatens and abandons him. The gang then engages in racist antagonism of, among others, local shopkeeper Mr. Sandhu, an Indian man who had previously banned Shaun from his shop.
Combo becomes depressed after Woody's girlfriend Lol, whom Combo has loved since they had drunken sex years ago, rejects him. To console himself, Combo buys cannabis from Milky, a member of Woody's group and the only black skinhead in the film. At a party with Shaun and the other members of Combo's group, Combo and Milky bond while intoxicated. Milky tells Combo about his many relatives and invites him for a meal. Combo becomes agitated at Milky and his race, before snapping, and reacting with extreme violence.
Afterwards, a montage of news clips from the Falklands War is shown onscreen, and Shaun reminisces about his father. Finally, he goes down to the shore and tosses into the sea a flag of St. George's Cross which Combo had given to him earlier.

These are some of the images used to promote the film 'This is England'

This URL is an interview with Shane Meadows; he expresses his attitude to how the movie has made him feel. It also shows some aspect of him becoming more independent, over all the interview has been set up for promotional purposes as he describes parts of the plot and characters.

http://www.futuremovies.co.uk/filmmaking.asp?ID=203

It is an English film which had a budget of £1.5million and successful produced a Gross Revenue of 31,539,372. Due to this success ‘This is England’ had a following series of ‘This is England ’86 which aired on Channel 4 quite recently.

This is england was funded by Film4 productions, In March 2007, the British Board Of Film Classification saddled the film with an 18 certificate, due to the use of "vicious racial language... might give out the wrong message to an impressionable audience". Such a move not only precluded Turgoose from seeing his own film, but also prevented Meadows from screening it to 15-year-old schoolchildren, as planned, to "show the dangers of bullying, peer pressure and racism to young people".."