This is England

A movie about a young boy called: "Shaun" who lives in one of the desolated cities in England in the 80's. Shaun has a troubled youth since his father died in war and he gets bullied at school. One day Shaun gets home from school and walks into a group of skinheads, led by a skinhead called: "Woody", he directly takes Shaun under his wing and Shaun becomes a skinhead.

After some time Woody's friend Combo gets out of prison and seemed to have got really rightwinged since he stayed in prison for 3 years and directly takes over control in the group of skinheads, at this moment Shaun chooses to become friends with Combo and shares a lot of his ideas.

At the end...well I ain't gonna tell anything about the end.

"This is England" is a very good movie that really catches that desolated atmosphere from the 80's when a lot of people were unemployed and very unhappy with Thatcher in control.

It's a little bit like American History X in a more raw and realistic kinda way.

The movie ends with a nice Smiths cover!