FREE ON CINEGEEK.DE THE BEST MOVIES IN OUR DVD STORE PT.2 Shane Meadows - This Is England 

When we see Shaun, we first see an urgent will: Shaun needs a father, new clothes like the other children, he wants to be bigger and stronger - just belong somewhere. Shaun lives in the shabby Yorkshire area and his father died in the Falkland War (it seems Shaun sees this as a punishment). Thatcher, Falkland, the music of Toots & The Maytals: Shane Meadows' 1983 film is set in the shabbiest part of Yorkshire. At the sight of Doc Martens, whom Shaun so desperately wants, the mother slaps her hands in front of her face. She shows him others who fit better for a boy his age. Her argument: "These are from London! Shaun is beaten up daily and that only changes after he finds his place in a group of skinheads. The leader Woody is friendly, Shaun even gets a new hairstyle from Woody's girlfriend: Bald. The mother is horrified, Woody and the gang ask if her son isn't much too young? Surprisingly, she leaves Shaun to Woody's care (you could guess many reasons, but in the end this remains questionable). Meadows This Is England enters at a certain point in the British skinhead movement. In the beginning the group is not racist (also a black man, Milky, is involved). Shaun kisses a girl for the first time and finds a replacement family. This changes when Woody's old friend Combo returns from prison. He preaches violence, racism and hatred. For these reasons Woody breaks with Combo, but Shaun follows the wrong man because he finds his strength more impressive than Woody's friendship. This Is England was set in Yorkshire over 25 years ago, but could work just as well in Germany today. The development story, even self-discovery, is told tightly and with relentless tension. The film explains why skinheads are skinheads and how they became skinheads. Shaun ultimately chooses to stay on his own rather than be robbed of his right to be alone by the group.