British Skinheads in the era of Maggie Thatcher

"THIS IS ENGLAND"
("Ascot Elite Home Entertainment"; DVD):

This movie is from 2006 and was released over here in Germany in 2007, for what I know (from the backcover of the DVD hull). This movie deals with Skinheads and the plot takes place around the time of the Falkland War and really expresses a depressive and violent mood of social stress and internal brokenness under the brutal and cold and strong right wing regime of Maggie Thatcher and her government, neoconservative and neoliberal, xenophobic and nationalistic. The protagonist is the totally not-cool outsider or misfit Shaun, a twelve years old boy who lost his father in the mentioned Falkland War where he died the death of a soldier. Very soon he meets a gang of Skinheads and Skingirls that uses to embrace him and quick he also becomes a Skinhead. At first party and fun really are the cornerstones of the life in the gang, beside music and style and attitude, but after a old friend of the guys in the group uses to return from prison, totally filled with racism and nationalism and hate propaganda of the National Front, things start to turn out complicated, violent and simply bad. The group starts to split, and while the one half despises the ideas of the returned old friend, the other half starts to pilgrim to meetings of the National Front, goes out to do some Pakibashing, and other bullshit like this. The conflict really starts to heat up more and more and it all is spiced with broken hearts and hurt emotions, and so it all turns out really, really bad when the movie reaches it's bloody climax and then the movie ends with a very melancholic final chord. Okay, if you take the plot, the story, the dramaturgy it all is nothing that special at all, okay, and why the hell nearly every movie that deals with Skinheads is about White Power NS subhuman faggot scum is something that really refuses to be understood by me anylonger. Bullshit!!! As if every movie about Turks is about drug dealers or suicide bombers, if ya understood what I mean, so go and fuck you and fuck your stupid and brainwashed as well as brainwashing clichès too!!! What's really good at this movie are the displayed Skinheads and Skingirls, and especially the criticism of the social and psychological circumstances of society under the regime of a hard if not brutal right wing ideology and government like the era of Maggie Thatcher used to be one. So, after all it's an okay movie, beside the fucked up german dubbing, but not more. Solid and good stuff, maybe you give it a try if ya still haven't seen it yet. Cheers & Oi! (7 of 10 points)
Ah, and finally (after this post here is already up for a pretty long while now) here you now get the official trailer of "THIS IS ENGLAND" (also all in all in the english language you all should expect and know about... more or less), so just get yourself some impressions and enjoy it and then decide for yourself if ya need to watch this movie here or not anyway anyhow.

"THIS IS ENGLAND"

(Official Trailer)