Changing direction

My initial investigations for my current project are at the moment leaving me a tad uninspired, so I am going to change direction a little bit. A source that I am using for inspiration now is the topic of protest. A key topic within the news and something that is very much current and is having a direct effect as myself being a student. Being part of youth culture at the moment consists of rebellion and general unrest much like in the film 'This is England'. I am interesting particularly in the aggressive way in which skin heads used to carry themselves (self mutilation, brutish clothing and a mean attitude) and the cult like mentality that they induced.

This Is England

The opening for Shane Meadows’s skinhead film 'This is England' is a burst of nostalgia from the early 1980s. Unemployed miners, National Front marches, the royal wedding, the storming of the Iranian Embassy, Green-ham Common and the Falklands conflict all together with nerds, Space Invaders and Rubik cubes. We follow 12-year-old Shaun (Thomas Turgoose), a fractious misfit on a northern council estate.
Shaun is quickly adopted by the local skinheads, echoing directly Meadows’s own experience of growing up on a council estate in Uttoxeter. Like Shaun, his social life was transformed by shaving his hair off. The gang smash up empty council houses for fun, and get stoned while listening to records but underneath the hostle exterior lies hearts of gold. This new friendship ends, however, when a virulently racist gang member called Combo (Stephen Graham) arrives fresh from prison and all hell breaks.

This film is raw, honest with true grit that pulls you into the story. The fashion i found particularly inspiring, everything about it is rebelious and hard, even the hair!
Here are the real deal: