This Is England Film Analysis

1. Introduction

I chose question 5 that is “Compare the representations of London in two of the films studied in the course and say which you think is the most accurate and why” because there is a common point that all main characters are from working class in these two movies. In these movies, many working class people view themselves as isolated existences. In that respect, This is England expresses working class people’s alienation with more precision because this movie’s director Shane Meadow is from working class and belonged to skinheads when he was a junior high school student. That is why working class people in 1980s who became characters in This is England are introduced in detail.

2. The Crying Game (1982) The main character

This is England (2006)

The main character named Shaun lost his father in Falklands War that was occurred in Falkland Island fight each other over dominium of these islands between the UK and Argentina for three months. In consequence of the war, the UK win the war although the UK lost many combatant ships and 225 British soldiers were killed. Therefore, Margaret Thatcher who was a prime minister at the time became popular and continued to be a prime minister. Furthermore, she resurrected the UK economy by the neo-liberal reform that became enlivened by the victory in Falkland

That is why This is England is considered that it is created more in detail and realistic. Through we study about modern British society by British movies, We are able to understand Thatcherism brought a big achievement but also came with high price especially high level of unemployment. Today’s Japan gets itself concerned in postwar British situation and Japan will fall into bankruptcy if we leave the economy alone without taking countermeasures. The Japanese government also may have to take measure even if we pay big