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...Meadows contends that it was only during the 1980s that the skinhead movement became infected by the Far Right, a collection of neo-fascist political parties, led by the infamous National Front, which called for the forced repatriation of immigrants. With the decline of British manufacturing and the onset of high unemployment, many working-class skins, whose communities bore the brunt of the new arrivals from abroad, became seduced by the promises of anti-immigrant politicians...
...Meadows' lingering camera shots over the local school playground filled with different gangs - Mods, Rockers, New Romantics - gives an anthropological feel to his study, almost like watching a National Geographic documentary on British youth tribalism. But it's clear where Meadows' own working-class allegiance lies: following Woody's skins strutting through alleyways, apropos of Reservoir Dogs, in drainpipe jeans, checkered shirts and Doc Marten boots...
...Drawing from a rich tradition of British cinematic realism, which includes directors like Ken Loach and Mike Leigh, the film has sparked controversy in its native land. England has long prided itself as an island of tolerance and freedom for newcomers, and detractors claim that Meadows' focus on an unpopular war - the film is inter-spliced with Falklands' footage - together with anti-immigrant racism lends undue emphasis to the seamier side of the country's recent past. A Sunday Times review by critic Cosmo Landesman dismissed the film's portrayal of 1980s (predominantly) white-working class as "unconvincing," railing against...
...parched, its riverside pubs and cafés packed. Londoners are enjoying the weather, but some detect in its unusual generosity the hidden curse of global warming. A similar pessimism greeted the life sentences handed out on the last day of April in a sticky courtroom to five British-raised terrorists for their involvement in a conspiracy to commit mass murder. The branch of the U.K.'s security service known as MI5 foiled the plot before any blood was spilled, but its success cloaks a tragic failure. That, at least, is the judgment of Britain's media...
...consistently asked the important questions about the relationships between individuals, communities and governments or who thought more deeply about how we should conduct ourselves in an interconnected world in which loyalties of nationality, ethnicity and religion continue to run deep. Blair's personal standing in the eyes of the British public may never recover, but his ideas, especially in foreign policy, will long outlast...