THIS IS ENGLAND | ROUGH NOTES
How is the youth subculture represented in This Is England?
Sean
Isolation (montage of him walking around his town_)
Shots of him near the beach
Meets the group (in the group)
Violence (vandalism in the house)
Fat guy (“gone down in rank’s since Sean’s arrival”)
“I’ve been where you are before yeh”
Reggae music
“You’re not having them, look at the size of ‘em”
Causing a scene in a shoe store / fake
Mother slaps the kid
Hair shave (your mum’s not gonna come and shout at me is she)
“Am I in the gang now?” “I ent got a Ben Sherman short”
“You’ll have to come back next week”
Change of image to fit the crowd
Sean “you’re two hours late”
“OH MY GOD”
“What you done to his hair?”
Protective mother but unaffectionate. Not capable of understanding what Sean’s going through) Teenager being challenged by adult (tame reaction)
16 vs. 13
Combo = just come out of prison
“Do you wanna suck my tits?”
WOG
Mood of the party changes
Music (piano in the background) Close-ups for reaction
True skinheads (friends with the immigrants)
New skinhead = COMBO (racist, anti-immigrant)
9 in one car
Combo’s flat (sheet of curtain)
Tiny ass kitchen
Working class values: Flight aggression with aggression.
“Milky, Do you consider yourself English or Jamaican?”
Combo meat milky up and they put it into coma
