This Is England

Since Teresa had mentioned the references to earlier films, I just wanted to add that the opening scenes in this film were pretty similar to those in Full Monty. There’s the playing of scenes that are not part of the film itself, and we can tell because the scenes are a bit fuzzy unlike the rest of the film. But whereas in Full Monty the film showed the great times at the peak of the steel mill industry followed by the harsh reality of what had followed, This is England showed the whole situation in the opening clip. We saw good times that were immediately followed by some of the tragedies of the war. I think that there’s a sense of continuity since the music didn’t even stop or change like I thought it would; the upbeat tune continued to play until it faded into the beginning of the film.