The movie This is England talks about England in the 1980s, and about dealing with outside influences such as racism and xenophobia, of mass unemployment and the fall out of the Falklands War. It talks a lot about the skinhead culture that was popular during this time and how it was to be a skinhead. This essay is going to talk about these things and also about what the similarities that can be found between 1980s England and Sweden today. It's also going to be talking about the main character in the movie “This is England” and what happens to him when he joins a skinhead group.
The skinhead culture has a bad reputation,but there were actually only a small part of the culture that was what it's was made out to be. In the beginning of the movie, Shaun joins a skinhead gang. The guys in the gang are typical skinheads for this time period, shaved heads, boots, Fred Perry;s, the whole thing. This type of skinheads has existed since the beginning of skinheads, from its start in Jamaica (In the form of rude boys) until now. The rude boy culture turned into the skinhead culture during the mass migration from Jamaica to England during the late sixties. The working class kids in England made friends with the working class kids from Jamaica and quickly adopted their culture. They were mostly angry at the upper class, and …show more content…
We can see this in the case of skinheads, they were thought to be racist and homophobic, but in reality was for the opposite. We can also see that there are similarities between the world then and the world now that we need to fix. The problems with racism for example, if we don't do something about it we will surely start a war or something that will destroy us as a species. The last thing we can see is how Shaun develops as a young boy and what happens to him when he joins a different
The skinhead culture has a bad reputation,but there were actually only a small part of the culture that was what it's was made out to be. In the beginning of the movie, Shaun joins a skinhead gang. The guys in the gang are typical skinheads for this time period, shaved heads, boots, Fred Perry;s, the whole thing. This type of skinheads has existed since the beginning of skinheads, from its start in Jamaica (In the form of rude boys) until now. The rude boy culture turned into the skinhead culture during the mass migration from Jamaica to England during the late sixties. The working class kids in England made friends with the working class kids from Jamaica and quickly adopted their culture. They were mostly angry at the upper class, and …show more content…
We can see this in the case of skinheads, they were thought to be racist and homophobic, but in reality was for the opposite. We can also see that there are similarities between the world then and the world now that we need to fix. The problems with racism for example, if we don't do something about it we will surely start a war or something that will destroy us as a species. The last thing we can see is how Shaun develops as a young boy and what happens to him when he joins a different