This is England

This is England is a film drama which was released in 2006. It was written and Directed by Shane Meadows. The film is all about people of the skinhead culture, they are white nationalists who only wanted English people living in England. The film is set in Northern England in 1983. Shaun (Thomas Turgoose) a 12 year old troubled boy who has been expelled for breaking into a fight at his school after a pupil commented on how his Dad had died in the Falklands war. Shaun is walking home he bumps into a group of skinheads the leader of the group Richard 'Woody' Woodford (Joe Gilgun) feels sympathy for Shaun and him and his group befriend him. Shaun finds a big brother in Woody. Woody shows Shaun to the females of the group and Shaun takes an immediate liking to an older girl Michelle 'Smell' (Rosamund Hanson)

Andrew 'Combo' Gascoinge (Stephen Graham) an older member of the skinheads has just been released from prison and tries to enforce his leadership. This leads to the group splitting. Shaun stays in Combo's group. Shaun finds Combo as his mentoring figure now. Shaun and some others from Woody's group go with Combo to a  National Front Meeting. When they get back the racist group cause havoc for a local Asian Shop keeper who had previously banned Shaun from his shop. They also caused mayhem for all the Asian children growing up round there area.

Combo gets his first chance to see Woody's girlfriend Lol (Vicky McClure) who he has loved ever since they had drunken sex years ago. After Lol rejected him he seeks out Milky (Andrew Shim) the only black member of Woody's group of Skinheads to buy cannabis of and while they are intoxicated they form a close friendship. Milky explains to Combo about how well his life is going. Combo becomes annoyed and agitated and takes all his anger out on Milky with extreme violence.

Afterwards a short film of clips of what Shaun could remember of his Father appear on screen and Shaun goes down to beach to throw in a St George's Flag which Combo had given him earlier in the film.

I feel Shane Meadows has written and directed this film with true passion and meaning. This is all portrayed in the film perfectly.

 

Today, at Stratford college  i was given an insight into the people from the Yao Hill Tribe. They performed in the Cultural Cafe and consisted of about seven women and eight men who had fantastic vocals. They sang some very exotic and traditional Chinese songs and were brilliant. The reaction of the crowd showed this by how amazed they were. One of the women had a solo and portrayed it perfectly furthermore she was then backed up by the rest of her supporting performers to finish the wonderful song. They executed all of this while wearing colorful and vibrant outfits which were really unique.


After watching this thrilling experience two males of the group performed a tradition of their culture which was a test of strength, they performed acrobatics by using a pole, each male held one end off the pole and tried to force the other person to let go they used many techniques by flicking each other into the air and rolling off each others back for victory.


All in All I enjoyed their preview of what's to come and found it an exciting event.

Kick-Ass

 Dave Livewski (Aaron Johnson) an unnoticed high school student who is comic book enthusiast, but one day decides he will be the hero for once. He has no training, meaning or reason to do this but he feels he can be a superhero by not just having a super power but just helping people, weather or not you have to confront two thugs with a blade. Although he still powers through and ends up teaming up with two other wannabe heroes Big Daddy (Nicholas Cage) and Hit Girl (Chloe Mortez) who have the skill and training they form a vigilante team, fighting drug dealers and vandals.     
I have heard good reviews like 'A pitch-perfect comic book and superhero homage that also works as a supremely enjoyable action film as well as wish fulfillment for wannabe superheroes of all ages'.Who wouldn't want to be him? I know for sure I am one of the thousands of people that would because I enjoyed the film. Furthermore I have heard bad but fair reviews like 'The select audience it is aimed for will thoroughly enjoy it while the rest of us will suffer through it'. I went to watch the trailer before the film, I felt it gave great credit and expectation for the film to come. It all starts with one question 'How come no one has tried to be a superhero? ' So he follows his destiny and takes the character off the brightly coloured page and makes it reality. But before I went to watch the film I read that it was 'Not for the faint of heart, Kick-Ass takes the comic adaptation genre to new levels of visual style, bloody violence, and gleeful profanity'. After reading this I thought this is a film for me, during the film action would be there at every blink. Not one dull moment would pass, this made the audience thrilled every time the heroic team appeared.
After watching the film I feel (Matthew Vaughn) filled his duty of making a fresh new genre of film.