2 minute opening to "This is England"

In the opening of This is England we see a boy clearly dressed as a typical 80's kid, in flared trousers that almost look over worn and dirty which show the audience at first glance that this boy isn't an upper class child but is more of a lower class child. This idea is then re-illustrated through the setting of the town which is a rural English area with lots of terries houses and a lot of the buildings are old and covered in graffiti which show that this film is going to look at the rural areas of England past the upper class of London, Windsor etc. which makes a change from most films set in England.

 

However before we saw this we saw a montage of the rural images and videos from the 80's for example the football riots and fights and famous outrages in the 80's these are then contrasted with the recoding's of the royal weddings and other royal events that show the two sides of England.