Friday, February 27, 2009

This is England

w/d   Shane Meadows

This is England? 

Sub-moronic skinheads beating, stealing, wrecking, hating everyone with whom they come in contact, including each other, all in the name of taking back the country from the "niggers and pakis?" Tattooed troglodytes incapable of saying two words without one of them being fuck? Meadows might want to get out a little more. 

Unrelentingly grim, ugly, negative, violent portrait of a time(1983). Maybe the problem is the title. How about...This is the Skinhead Subculture? Or ...This is British Society's Ugly Underbelly? Or...This is the Scuzziest Possible Take On Britain I Could Think Of?

Just doesn't have the same marquis value, I guess. I need a bromo seltzer after this one.

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