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jackhammer · 11-14-2009, 05:38 PM

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.

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jackhammer Ba and Be. Join Date: May 2007 Location: This Is England Posts: 17,331	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. __________________ It be my music and film collection. “A cynic by experience, a romantic by inclination and now a hero by necessity.”