British Culture class May 2013

This is England

This is a 2006 film by Shane Meadows. http://www.thisisenglandmovie.co.uk 

The film starts with a series of short news clips, showing us what was going on in 1983 (when the film is set). The order may be slightly different, but here are some of the things we see:

1. Roland Rat and the birth of Breakfast TV.

2. Margaret Thatcher behind the steering wheel of a truck, wearing a hard hat, a blue suit and a string of pearls. 

3. The Rubik's Cube.

4. An aerobics class.

5. A boy playing Space Invaders.

6. Compact disks being pressed.

7. Sheep in a vast open landscape.

8. British soldiers marching across the open landscape of the Falkland Islands, carrying a Union Jack.

9. Argentinian soldiers wearing thick overcoats, captured by the British soldiers.

10. Royal Navy sailors saluting Margaret Thatcher on board ship.

11. Maggie with Ronnie (Margaret Thatcher with Ronald Reagan).

12. The end of the siege at the Iranian embassy in London.

13. Skinheads fighting.

14. A National Front march.

15. The Greenham Common women clashing with police.

16. The striking miners strike clashing with police.

17. An elderly Sikh repairing his broken window.

18. The front page of a tabloid newspaper showing the Tory lead over Labour to be 29%.

19. A ship on fire (perhaps the HMS Sheffield hit by an Exocet missile in the Falklands War).

20. Duran Duran singing on TV.

21. A young couple kissing.

22. Magaret Thatcher firing a cannon.

23. Charles and Diana's wedding.

24. A wounded British soldier being carried on a stretcher onto a tank.

25. Three men with their backs to the camera, all wrapped in one large Union Jack flag.

26. A housing estate with graffiti on the walls.

27. Some young skinheads climbing up some stairs.

28. The car from the American TV series Knight Rider.

29. Margaret Thatcher again in blue suit and pearls, signing a document.

30. The Royal family on the balcony at Buckingham Palace.

What have I missed? If you have time, watch the opening at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JBpJ4ZuFP8E and see if you can (a) put the above list in the right order, and (b) add any scenes that I have forgotten to mention.