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Rooted in the Middle England
he knows so well, Shane Meadows's latest film is one of his
best: a brutal look at how a lonely, fatherless boy gets
sucked into the skinhead movement of the early 1980s. The
central character, Shaun (Thomas Turgoose), is a 12-year-old
living with his widowed mother, his father having been
killed serving with the army in the Falklands. Sloping and
moping his way home after a standard-issue school day of
humiliation, Shaun gets waylaid by some skins in a dodgy
underpass, but instead of yet more battering, the gang give
him sympathy and understanding.
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