This Is England Film

Questions On Film

1. What is the function of the iconography used in the title sequence of the film? how might it help you understand the film?

Answer: The graffiti suggest someone has a tough life, it may help us to understand the film because it helps us understand the skin heads in the film. Rebelling-this shows us that the skin heads were rebellious and believed in what they believed in very strongly moreover, enough for them to start riots

2. Who is the story narrated by? What impact does the narrative voice have on you? why

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3. How is Shaun represented at the very beginning of the film? how does his representation contribute to your understanding of him as the protagonist of the film?

Answer: Shaun is a very little boy that is very in your face, The film is based around skin heads however, it is also based around Shaun a boy that's family is not so rich, a boy that gets bullied, a boy in his own little world most of the time and he does not really have friends his age however, his got the gang though.

4. What do you think about the depiction of the skinhead gang? what are their defining features? Does the director glamorize  the gang?  Does he demonize it? give your reasons.

Answer: There defining features are there big boots, jeans, braces and there check shirt. The director glamorize the gang because they all have a special type of style compared to everyone else that lives and are a round them. The skinhead gang are very racist however, not all skin head gangs are racist.

5. What is the function of Mikly in the story? What does his name suggest?

Answer: Milky name suggest they are not racist because the boy is black however, they call him milky and his function in the story is Milky fells bad because they sometimes be rude to black people in the gang and he is black or part black.

6. What does the gang mean to Shaun? What does Shaun mean to the gang?

Answer: The gang means friendship, brother hood to Shaun because he is a only child and he does not have any friends what so ever. Shaun means brother hood to the gang and he entertains the gang a lot, also the gang liked that he stud up for his self and he was always ready for a fight like when he punched Combo in the mouth.

HOMEWORK
1) What is your view of how masculinity is defined in the film?
In the film masculinity was really big because in the gang there are girls however, they accurately looked like boys because they had very short hair suggesting they look like boys.

2)Discuss the theme of loss-of innocence/coming-of-age in the film.

Shaun used to be a young innocent boy before the joined the gang however, when he was in the bad gang he became racist, rude and did terrible things.

Themes Of The Play

• Sadness 
• Angr 
• Hatered 
• Death
• Sorrow 
• Famly and Friendship 
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