Talk:This Is England

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Contents 1 Release? 2 Translations 3 British DVD cover? 4 Plot Interpretation? 5 Location

[edit] Release?

Was this a straight to dvd release? No it was shown at cinemas nation wide.

Film is currently in cinemas in Melbourne, Australia. - 203.87.69.229 07:21, 2 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Translations

Translated to Russian: 2-voice soundtrack and subtitles (independent). 87.240.15.26 (talk) 16:29, 27 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] British DVD cover?

This surely isn't the British DVD cover. This awful piece of art completely misconveys what the films about. I'd use the English cover but I don't really know how Wikipedia works with this type of stuff, haha. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.130.138.53 (talk) 21:24, 9 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Plot Interpretation?

From the main article:
"The film highlights the irony that the skinhead subculture adopted by white power groups such as the National Front was partly based on elements of black culture, especially Jamaican ska and reggae music. "

Unless there's evidence to support it, this assertion seems wide of the facts. The only mention of "black culture" in a positive light occurs during the very ending of the movie, and even then, the idea that any subculture was "adopted" is presented as simply a way to lull the victim into thinking that he shares something with the skinhead who's about to kill him. The assertion might be accurate; I'm no expert on any connections of that sort. But it's a bit of a stretch to talk as if the film "highlights" the connection. C d h (talk) 02:19, 27 January 2008 (UTC)

• The sentence pasted above accurately represents one of the themes that appears in the film. The skinheads in the film listen to black music (ska, reggae, soul); there are photos of black musicians posted on the wall at the home of one of the skinheads; one the characters is a black (or at least partly-black) skinhead; and the plot shows a split between non-racist skinheads and white power skinheads. Spylab (talk) 19:45, 28 January 2008 (UTC)

The film didn't "highlight" the black cultural borrowings of the white power groups. This is original research, and pretty crappy research too. The motivations that drove young, lost and fatherless boys to the skinhead movement was a far more salient theme. Kransky (talk) 10:57, 11 February 2008 (UTC)

• You seem to be confusing the overall skinhead subculture with the white power skinhead faction. Black culture most definitely had an influence on the development of the skinhead subculture. That is not original research; that is well-documented fact. Spylab (talk) 15:29, 11 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Location

This may have been filmed in Nottingham but surely it isn't set there? At the end he goes to the sea! Quite a walk for a 12-year-old from Nottingham.--81.101.3.226 (talk) 00:14, 3 June 2008 (UTC)