Wednesday, March 26, 2008

This Is England

A coming-of-age tale set in early '80s Britain against the backdrop of the aftershocks of the Falklands War. It's like "Harry Potter," but instead of magicians, the boy protagonist falls in with skinheads, and instead of Voldemort as an all-powerful omnipresent evil force, the normal people are worried about skinheads and the skinheads are worried about Pakistanis and other non-whites. It's decent, but in all seriousness, British films without subtitles are a very bad idea.

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