Fantastic British film!

This Is England is a dark, psychological, twisted yet funny film that is absolutely typical from us British. It is a very dark story based on what England was like in the 1980s and is sometimes still like now. This Is England is a film that has tons of foul language. When the word "f***" comes into it and is said so often by one character it becomes hilarious. This film is widely compared to Trainspotting because story is quite similar and also the feelings that you have towards This Is England is similar to Trainspotting. It is also compared a lot to American History X because of the characters involved. This Is England is a brilliant film that is out to send a message to how serious lives can be affected when in that situation but unfortunately didn't send the message of what people can do about those bad things. It is a realistic side to what Britain is like now. There is a lot of racism involved like beating up Asians and black people for "taking over Britain". It is a film that showed how broken and beaten Britain is now. This Is England is quite hard to watch at times but is very enjoyable to watch. How Thomas Turgoose had the guts to be in a film like this and play such a character I have no idea. One thing I do know is that he has big guts to play this character. When I saw him kiss Smell I was surprised about his kissing towards her because he was only 14 in this film.


His acting was absolutely superb. His performance is without a doubt one of the best child performances ever! This would have been a good Danny Boyle film but he would have made it too much like Trainspotting. It is a very violent film because there are a lot of graphic racist ambushes involved especially the beating up of that black man within the group. It is quite graphic is a sexual way as well.


This Is England is a very powerful drama that some people would find quite disturbing but I think that is the basic point of the film. I loved this film so much I will definitely call as one of the best films of 2006 and also one of the best British films of all time as well.

9/10