The rough and direct image style is full of British flavor.
Maybe it's because they don't understand the situation of British nationalism, so they can only try to bring it into it.
The film has two lines, one is the growth of the values of the rebellious teenagers, and the other is the turbulent ideological trend in the country and its influence on the youth.
The teenager lost his father because of the foreign war, and has a ignorant understanding of the country and the nation;
Then, after coming into contact with skinheads, and after coming into contact with radical nationalism and xenophobia, he has a radical understanding of the country and the nation;
After finally witnessing the brutality and vulnerability of the spiritual idol, the bald man, I have a deeper understanding of nationalism - nationalism is only a fig leaf for the losers, they will only throw their iron fists on the weaker - compared to the father It is shameful to die for the country, and it is shameful that he juxtaposes skinheads with his father, and finally chooses to break with it.
The passage at the end of the film, in which he is looking at his father's photo in bed with his mother, hints that the understanding of glory tends to return, and the English flag thrown into the sea is obviously a rejection of the old view.
In general, the world view of young people has gone through three stages: seeing a mountain as a mountain, seeing a mountain as a mountain, and seeing a mountain as a mountain again.
In addition, the film does not actually focus on political discussions, which are mixed with elements other than politics, such as childishness, impulsiveness, emotional budding, bullying, identification and belonging that must exist in teenage stories, but the integration with the theme is not very good. Some are not focused enough.
This is one of the problems, and the second is:
The discussion of nationalism is too simplistic. Skinheads do not represent complete nationalism. The cases provided in the film cannot prove the realm of "seeing mountains is not a mountain".
The teenager just returned to the confusion from the confusion. The understanding of the world has taken a big turn, but he has not been able to move forward. This makes the act of discarding the flag relatively weak in connotation.
Anyhow, it can go further.
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