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  • 4:28

    Do you think there was enough menace in the racism, black man?

  • I think Whittle completely misses the point; the title is inclusive not exclusive, it's saying this was/is a part of British culture and therefore warrants discussion. I'm glad so much was made of this film as I loved it when it came out and I think the 'series' as a whole is really a seminal work in kitchen sink realism.

  • Spoke to Dotun a few nights ago about this programme. He said it was very emotional and he hasn't yet watched This is England 88. I said he should.

  • meadows portrays the real world in any country. We are all effected at root by one issue ...MONEY and how we are manipulated by and for it.....the people doing this are ROTHSCHILDS ...shine a light on these people and change this endless cycle that drains the spirit of every human in any county of any race, eye colour, skin colour, pubic hair colour. Money and its manipulators are causing a world to act in fear and the twisted global and local society at every level is the end product.

  • "Fringe part of the culture" 7:50, lmao clueless retard, fringe? you mean large swathes of the working and lower middle class, unemployment, bullying at school etc ..... that small minority, oh!

  • Kermode is god

  • That guy Whittle is a fucking knoblicker.

  • @Thememoryremains100 Fuck off.

  • doglife cunt

    

  • Kermode is toatl self absorbed tool.. I cant begin to listen to any of these pretentious twats.. Kamode deserves to be mocked for his daft hair, arrogant stance... watch his views on anything to do with 9/11 truth.. yup, hes a BBC media puppet pretending to have free-thought.. total shill cock

  • a terrible film

  • @TheHappydead You do know Mark Kermode is as much of a 'posh white guy' as Peter Whittle? He is from a comfortable middle-class background and went to one of the best boys' schools in London. I happen to agree with Kermode (and I'm guessing also yourself) - I think the film is excellent, as was last year's follow up TV series. His reviews are generally spot on. Whittle's idiocy can hardly be attributed to his social class though, and certainly not his race.

  • God Whittle just shut up. With every word he reveals himself to be ever more an idiotic, culturally blind moron.

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  • I love how Whittle (great name) accuses the film of not liking England and its culture ("it's disgusting"), and then talks about the "miserabilist British thing. It's very self-loathing." Sounds like one persons does not like England. And it ain't Meadows.

  • "perfectly fine" what a twat......

  • Not sure about up north but skinheads down south weren't flourishing & energised like this lot in 1983 when this film is set. Skinheads had their heyday to my memory from 1978-1981 in tandem with all the other youth movements prevalent at the time. By 1983 I remember a general cultural apathy & listlessness amongst youth and a leaning towards non identity and casual dress. Maybe they were a bit behind the times up north but this isn't my memory of 1983 at all.

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  • Didn't understand a word Whittle said because of that rotten plum in his mouth!!

    Instead of talking about the actual content of the film the Gimp decides to start off by saying how small he thinks Tommo Torgoose looks!

  • Kermode & everyone else 1 - 0 Whittle

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  • Since when did height and maturity had anything to do with each other?

  • Stephen Graham is sensational in this film

  • Kermode is a legend!

  • That was such a nonsense bullshit comment by Whittle 'He struck me as being too small for a 12 or 13 year old!' . Shaun is not a CGI character. He was played by a 12 or 13 year old kid! that's how big he is. He's not a Hobbit in The Lord Of The Rings!!

  • POSH STUPID IDIOT!

  • Nationality is a combination of happenstance and choice. For instance, I was born in Germany (happenstance), but I grew up in England, English is my first language, I have an intense love of English culture. However, up until the age of 18 I had the option to apply for dual citizenship because I was born in Germany. I chose not to pursue that because I simply knew that I'm not German, I'm English. But I probably wouldn't have made that choice if I had happened to live in Germany all my life.

  • what a fool that posh cunt is.

  • is that posh cunt really complaining about an actor being too short

  • The posh white guy seems to have watched a different film from everyone else. Just proves how little experience he has of working class culture and community.

  • Best British film since Trainspotting!

  • Posh guy is a complete twat living in a upper middle class fantasy land and does not want to acknowledge the working class experience that is a reality for the majority of the country.

  • Yeah Rat Fans....

  • peter whittle; you sir, are the definition of pretentious

  • Katie is so over England, and England was never under her.

  • peter whittle is a middle class twat. Kids grow up much quicker in working class areas than they do at posh schools and at home with their nannies looking after them. Asshole.

  • It's almost like kermode was scripted by Meadows. Unless that is kermode read the film exactly right? The posh twat got it completely wrong. Meadows got it right in yet more brilliant film making. Meadows ftw every time.

  • 7:50 is so bullshit

    'this is england' doesnt say all of england is disguisting, i think its more of a question

    yeah the posh man's a twat

  • @matatmat Posh man knows less than Kermode, and that guy is just there to be completely wrong, and a twat! Such a good film.

  • This is England. You would never know that watching Late Review. Late Review seems to exist to showcase for English license payers the cleverness of forigners.

  • @EnglandWeWinWars True, and while on the subject here his a "forigner" telling you how to spell "forigners" correctly: f-o-r-e-i-g-n-e-r-s

  • @EnglandWeWinWars 'What the fuck are you talkin' about,every 1 of the panelists are English(ie.born & bred in England).Your comment makes the English look idiotic,but being Scottish I have no prob's wi' that,lol.BTW the license fee is paid by all of the U.K not just the English!Your comment makes NO sense!

  • @socillizt4life Wrong, being born here does not mean you are English. They are British Citizens but they are not English. The black guy is African, and a british citizen but not English. The English are a Nation, not a peice of land, wherever they go they are still English If you were born in india would you call yourself indian? And while you are indeed corect about the licence fee, we still pay for a hell of alot of other things for you, i.e nursing homes, hospitals, universities and so on.

  • @MrExtremerightwing ........a country is defined by it's culture, that means the day to day experience of that country from childhood to adulthood, if a boy of Pakistani descent grows up in England to say the age of 16 he will of soaked in the culture of his homeland as much as a boy of Anglo Saxon descent so to draw attention to his Pakistani origins makes as much sense as drawing attention to my French origins which date back to William the Conqueror.

  • @bazeye No, you are mistaking a peice of land with a nation. As i said before the English are a nation, even if my grandfather and father and myself for instance were born in India, i would still be English. Like Wellington, his family had lived in ireland for many generations, but he was still English. The English are not a peice of land nor are they the sum of our culture. We are a nation of people.

  • @MrExtremerightwing ..........ok  there are English people that have foreign origins so a lad whose parents are Pakistani but has been raised from birth in Engalnd is technically racially a Pakistani but culturally an Englishman, which is more important in my opinion, ethnic origin is so trivial its not even worth mentioning as the character of a person is what matters and thats nothing to do with race, its to do with behaviour so you insistence of making racial distinctions is irrelevant.

  • @EnglandWeWinWars I can imagine that you're a massive wang.

  • I love Dotun Adebayo and Mark Kermode. A lot. 5Live >>>>>

  • MARK KERMODE FTW!

  • 'too knowing' for a 12/13 year old from someone who hasn't been that age for 20 years. i'm in my twenties, i remember being that age and i remember what everyone else my age was like, and the role didn't feel 'too knowing' to me.

  • trust the bbc to find this posh moron

  • The final comment saying that the Argentinian youth lost their lives and we were enjoying ours is completely wrong. Glossing over the 258 British lives lost and 775 wounded; creating some sort of hierarchy of cultural opportunity is not at all suggested in the film. Smacks, to me, of a complete lack of understanding of the conflicts poignant role as a backdrop for the era.

  • wtfs that posh cunt bangin on about.. he hasnt gotta fuckin clue what workin class englands like nurtured by his mum an dad all his life

  • That posh guy is a twat and Dotun Adebayo is a bit of a dickhead anyway. He was doing well until he started banging on about The Falklands

  • I kind of get what the posh twats saying though. There is a tendency in our culture to think working class equals 'real' and 'authentic' and middle class equals ephemeral and somehow unreal. They are just different realities. There is also a glorification of working class culture in this country, which basically amounts to a glorification of ignorance and limited horizons. Mark Lamar put it well, "why would anyone want to be a working class hero?"

  • thumbs up if your poor

  • @nath909 An understanding of the English language costs nothing. It is "you're" not your.

  • @qwertyuiopdan1

    You didn't let me finish. I was going to say, thumbs up if your poor neighbour can't spell.

  • @nath909 touché salesman

  • What the fuck was Peter Whittle doing in the 80's And what a total fucking prick. He was obviously to busy polishing his Dad's cock to know what England was actually like. And the Black guy was good until he was on about Argentina.

  • What the fuck

    Since when was seans age an issue

    Like the woman said it was not sugar coated and the acting was really good and you got a

    Good idea what was going on during that time

    What the fuck does it matter what his age is jeeeeeesse

  • wow, that is the poshest guy i have ever seen in my life. wot a faggot. u can just tell he lives his life making sure he is at all times politically correct.

  • thank God i dont see much of that Whittle fella on tv. he obviously has no idea of wat growing up in that era was like. Great film.

  • There is a reasons why your just a pompous deluded critic Whittle and not a acclaimed director like Meadows, and this clip summed that up just nicely...

  • that black guy was so wrong about the falklands bit towards the end of the clip, this is england is a portrayal of northern working class youth culture. Do people really think this was a portrayal of all of england? i think this is england is about the england shane knew growing up.

  • The posh guy's a twat. The cutbacks grant context as well as giving the death notion of violence breeding violence.... And the destruction of not merely society but the exploitation of the workingclasses.

  • Kermode talks perfect sense.

    Whittle talks like the fucking ignorant cunt he is.

  • Kermode Pwnt that snob.

  • it doesn't literally mean "This is England" what a fucking moron.

  • haha that posh guy got schooled by everyone.

  • POSH TWAT...LEAVE IT TO US TO CREATE REAL ART\

  • Did the man in black get a brief to be negative?

  • can only think that the posh tit was asked to come on the show to play a sort of devils advacate and provide a contrasting view so the debate had a more dynamic feel to it but hes talking shitee completely misses the essence of the film can only assume that he has never had the privelege of experience such thorough and genuine compassion in his life what a nob

  • @flanksrob I completley agree I can not believe one man can be that short sighted, he must be a stooge, what a tosser. Slap him Dr K

  • that guy is a fucking idiot, how much did he miss the point of this film

  • that posh guy is an idiot

  • token black guy is pathetic. Those young Argentinians didn't have any rights at all, not even the choice to join the military or not. Inane bullshit.

  • Although the rating would have no material effect, the censor board was right to be concerned. The film has clearly been picked up and championed by right (they also love the falklands war, so its really like a wet dream), probably treating it as a kind of point-and-laugh movie.

  • combo'd twat that posh cunt.

  • kermode, please give that self absorbed posh twit a slap from us all! thanks flappy hands.

  • Will that posh bloke stop moving his fucking hands so much.

    I realise that on this show that's like the trade mark but this "man" is almost having a fit with his hands.

  • @AngreyDude92 Lemme state right off the bat that im american and live in the states (chicago to be specific).... but this movie was unreal good (we did have skinhead culture here, though it was obviously a rip off of yours... dr martines, skinny suspenders etc.), so basically i acknowledge that i dont really have the background to comment.. that said, putting man in quotes was absolutely perfect!!! awesome, seriously, awesome!!! ;)

  • This is England was fkn brilliant

  • surprise surprise the posh white guy doesnt get it

  • i FUCKING HATE POSH NOBS

  • Posh twat is completely wrong. Jesus Christ, where did find him?

  • Turgoose acting 'too mature'? I've seen 7 year old feral kids running wild on city streets, skinning up on the bus that act well beyond their years. That fella needs to get out more, as he's a lead a truly sheltered life.

  • Notice how the Black Guy is asked only the race question, and then ignored? An undercurrent of racism, maybe, lol ;p :)) !!!???

  • Who cares England sucks IRISH PRIDE!!!!

  • @316greg Who cares ? you're the Irish twat clicking on English vids you soft cunt, you CLEARLY care!

  • @2BarKawi I was looking up skin head movies and stumbled onto this movie by accident you dumb fuck.

  • @316greg Who gives a fuck how you came across it, you said you don't care yet still waste time commenting etc.

  • @316greg potatoe

  • posh nub.

  • That posh guy just needs to shut up

  • notice how its only the posh cunt who doesn't get the film

  • Stephen Graham was awesome in this film.

  • that posh guy should SHUT UP

  • @jhvscs

    My sentiments exactly, Mark Kermode is undoubtedly, one of the finest critics of contemporary cinema. I wish to expound upon his analytical discourse, Kermode is one of the few people who can discern the themes and relevance of a film's subtext or its conceit and judge it in such a professional manner, unlike so many other hackneyed critics.

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  • That snob is just nip picking

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  • This is my absolute favourite film, it's so well made, and my mom grew up in this culture, and she loves it too coz it's one of the few films like this that gives yu a real idea of what it's like, also newsnight is something I watch daily and is really good. Please note, I'm 13. Xo

  • Insightful stuff. Thanks for posting! :)

  • What a surprise, the black man gets the racism question - as if he isn't allowed an opinion on any other aspect of the film.

    And what the fuck was that Whittle bloke on about when he was criticising Turgoose; he's 12 years old, he's not Marlon fucking Brando. I thought he was great in this film.

  • To criticise film reviewers for being "middle class' is ridiculous, did you expect to tune in and see a welder a coal miner and a couple of dockers from Birkenhead casting their critical eyes over the latest film release?

    This is England is a frustratingly inaccurate film.If you were to travel back in time to 1983 and interview a bunch of skinheads from the Midlands you wouldn't find a predominantly multi-racial subculture with a fringe National Front element! but quite the opposite.

  • "frustratingly inaccurate"? Some of us grew up in this period and in this class. Clearly, you didn't. I come from a white working class town and i did have a black mate. He had a hard time from some people but he had plenty of white friends too. The level of authenticity in this film is stunning. If you want to see a bloody awful portrayal of working class britain, try Shameless or any number of popular soaps

  • @PlazaMoon Excuse me, but i was born in a council house in Leicestershire in 1973 in a very close knit working class community- how dare you prejudge my social class? The comment that it is ridiculous to criticise film reviewers for being middle class is still valid i'm afraid, working class people simply don't make late night cultural review television programmes, perhaps they should, but at present they don't. I grew up knowing skinheads in the midlands thank you very much.

  • @PlazaMoon I can tell you categorically that the skinhead lads i grew up with were exclusively NF thugs who listened to Oi! bands not Jamaican Ska, Reggae, bluebeat or rocksteady, i can accept that there may have still been "Spirit of 69" non-racist skins around in certain parts of the Midlands who socialized with black kids but i never witnessed it and i don't know anyone else who remembers that, so do i trust my own experience or a film?

  • @PlazaMoon I will also have you know that i lived in Salford, from 1991 to 1993, as a working class student from Leicestershire in a working class area in the North and I am more than familiar with working class Mancunian and Midlands culture I don't need to get have phoney representations from TV or Film, I am currently employed in non-skilled manual labour in a factory in Loughborough, Is there anything else you'd like to enlighten me about? If so i'd love to hear it, Me duck.

  • @9wolfy9 Whoa there Wolfy. No need to come running out of your kennel. Alright then, I accept you're a genuine proletariat and I'm sure you're being honest about your own experiences of skinhead culture. But, Shane Meadows is a straight up guy and I believe that in this film he is being completely honest about his experiences with skinhead culture. We all have our own stories to tell and you cannot say that your own is more authentic than anybody else's.

  • @PlazaMoon O.K fair enough, we all have our own appreciation of the world around us, I'm simply saying I find the plot and premise of the story suspiciously contrived in relation to my own experience, It is as if Meadows has used the skinheads as a neat little device to explore attitudes in wider society, If he had included some of the grotesque casual racism that existed in most average white working class households at that time( my own included), it would have been a far more honest film.

  • Barring Mark Kermode all the other people who appear on Newsnight Review, including those who aren't on this clip are pretentious private shool educated cunts.

    Especially that fat bastard John Harris.

  • "One found it to have a slightly predictable turn of events, and the youth was a little too mature... I wish Thatcher was still our PM... she would make it better... I don't understand the world anymore... the film was miserablist you see..." If was Kermode I would have stabbed him with my quiff.

    As for the Black guy... I bet Argintines would love this film... its the brittish City of God... big up Shane Meadows

  • genius film. moving and thoughtful. the journalist peter is talking out his ass..

    Please let Mark Komode replace Jonathon Ross for film 2010!!

  • Trainspotting for the 2000s :)

  • I wish it to be known that I have an enormous knob. Thank you.

  • I can vouch for that

  • in the 80s alot of manual labour got replaced with machines and as england in the 80's is thailand now alot of people were on the street and when you have no job yet that guyr across the street does it would make you ask why has he got the job if he is foreign u wonder why cant he work in his own country and leave the job for you, im not a racist but i could see how the hatred began. i also think its racist for foreigners to come here and treat this place like a dump but thats our foreign policy

  • totally agree, this hatred will never die out though as foreigners will alwys be in the country :(

  • Made In Egland is a magnificent film. Its is uncomfortable viewing for some and there is more than enough menace in the racism. Although Dead Mans Shoes is a more satisfying cinema experience, Made In England is probaby a better and more important film.

  • That is the most rediclious thing i've ever heard. Donkey Punch is shit

  • Kermode looks at culture objecively (as a critic should). Whittle on the other hand is an elitist (He loves the idea of quaint England)

  • Yes, I won't try to comment more eloquently than to say that Mr Whittle is definitely a waste of space. tw@t. As the discussion suggests, it may not be a perfect film but it does do a hell of a job of showing all the conflicting forces.

  • rofl gangster faggot no u dont even talk like one you wanabe fuck you douch

  • it doesnt matter even if you are alcapone u cant be a gangster on youtube its like holding up a bank while blindfolded.

  • i highly doubt 'gangsters' get into debates on youtube!

  • Kermode is a wonderful critic, profoundly analytical of the films themes and relevance. I can't believe that other guy is actually paid to broadcast such stupid views

  • ha i know, one of that guy's points is 'turgoose's acting is too knowing for someone so short'

  • that posh guy (no idea who he is) is talking out of his ass...i actually said "really?" the same time as kermode- but kermode didnt say "twat" afterwards like i did :P

  • "Peter Whittle", apparently. You're right though, ever single point he struggles to make is absolute bollocks. You can hear the rest of the room disagreeing with him. :D

  • its like that guy was just trying to find one little bit of criticism to put him above everyone else and falls on his face...good thing too........ what a twat

  • @TobeUK very true :)

  • @TobeUK You have no idea who he is even though his name appears on the screen in giant white lettering. Lol you moron.

  • Amazing film

  • hes meant to be 11 this reviewer doesnt evan know the film

  • 12-13 hes very small....I was roughly his height at 12-13

  • in the film hes 11

  • What is Bidisha for?

  • peter whitle has been whitled away and that is why he has  a name like that

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  • sorry maarks cool

  • I didn't expect the third guy to understand the film anyway.

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  • I like Mark Kermode. He is always clear & concise in making his point & invariably i tend to agree with 99% of what he says

  • This Wark Nonsense has nothing on me (Arthur) click on my 'encult' blueness to examine and discuss.

  • tit

  • Guy in white suit knows his stuff

  • The posh knob in the suit was just trying to be different in his opinion. Dickhead, I know plenty of kids like Sean.

  • The guy in the suit isn't really listening to the conversation - just wants to get his point across.

  • They are all in suits

  • LOL

  • I think I meant to say patriotism. Patrionism is a word I have seen used a lot. I just googled it, as I'm sure you did to make sure you were justified in your response to my obviously outwardly offensive post further down the page that has been here for weeks. Thanks for putting me striaght though you are clearly very intelligent. cock.

  • I don't know what that was about, sorry. You seem very nice indeed, fragglegobo, and not at all a cock.

  • Turgoose can look back at this as a fantastic achievement - his performance is so much more genuine than the droves of A-list Hollywood stars on multi-million dollar pay cheques.

  • Don't want to be a parrot, but I must. The man in the black suit just doesn't get it. You are supposed to be shocked at an evidently young child being so offensive etc. He is supposed to mature through the film (or at least thats what I drew from it). Finally coming to a end when he throws the flag in sea, having grown up and abandoning the far right views.

  • correct. It's amazing how a critic can't understand it. I mean, let's face it, the symbolic implication of the flag being thrown into the sea is not that subtle lol

  • The critic in the black suit just didn't get the point of the film.

  • So the guy in the black suit thinks that Turgoose's character can't act mature because ... he's short?!!

    You dumb fucking prick. The kid looks small and young therefore he has to act like an innocent little cherub?

    What a moron.

  • the guy in the black suit just doesnt get it. this is England was referring to the misjudged patrionism of some of the characters i thought. Steven Graham is a fucking genius, and Meadows, and Thomas Turgoose is one to watch. How can saving private ryan get a 15 and this get an 18??!!??

  • Patrionism isn't a word, you cock.

  • The man on the right with the black suit is a tosser.

  • i always read alot of reviews and watch them, and so much of the time they sound like their having a go for the sake of it trying to sound intelligent, or letting their ego's getting in the way and always have to say something, even if the film was fine, and everytime mark kermode never does that, if its good he will say it, if its bad he will say it, he is very intelligent and you can tell what he is saying is how he feels the others are just like blah blah blah not really making a good point.

  • Yay Dotun and Mark! Two of 5 lives best!

  • What the fuck is Whittle on about?

  • Wtf? The kid was 12 when he did it! And he's panning his performance!? How up your own arse can you get?

  • so what if people are small peter!!!

    god!