This is England
When I was watching this film I was wondering how people who weren't alive in the 80s would take it. What would they make of all the carefully delineated tribes (skins, scooter boys, new romantics, two-tone, and so on) the FATCHA references, and the lack of proper computer games and iPods? Well, I'm not sure, and anyone who is of that age is welcome to tell me via the comments, but I thought it was spot on, and really captured how scary and exciting it was. Bliss it was to be alive but to be young was very heaven, wrote Wordsworth, yet somehow he neglected to mention Roland Rat.The film is pretty much a remake of TwentyFourSeven, only with skinheads instead of boxing. But mostly it's about growing up, trying to belong, and fear. There's a great performance from the wee lead, and Romeo Brass is all growed up in this one and playing a lad called Milky; at first the skinheads break the kid down, and then they build him back up again. But as the film goes on he stops being built up again. All the characters seem real, even the shoeshop woman who pedals fake DMs, and the film hangs together in a way that other Meadows efforts, like Once Upon a Time in the Midlands, don't.
This film is good and you should definitely go and see it if you are a bit bored with emo superheroes.
posted by Chairman Peyote @ 4:46 AM
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Maggie Thatcher - milk snatcher!
I did think Thatcher was evil, but not because of the milk-snatcher thing. We got milk at school but the silver top was troublesome and it was warm and sometimes it smelt a bit of sick. No, I thought Thatcher was evil because she liked nuclear war.
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