Thursday 10 April 2014

Made in Britain

(1982)

RATING:80%
FORMAT:tv

Superb and insightful analysis of the state of modern Britain in terms of its disaffected youth; showing the negative affects a middling culture can have upon the above average.

Tim ROTH brilliantly essays the role of Trevor, who realizes he is being conned by an education system based on control not personal development. His culture offers him the Hobson’s Choice of self control or control by others; leading to the same non-destination.

Film portrays White culture as institutionally racist as magistrates, social workers and police officers are casually bigoted. Trevor’s own White supremacy is mere opportunistic stress-relief as it is socially sanctioned by those same middle-class Whites around him. Despite his high intelligence, his case officers’ mediocrity ensures they offer Trevor no practical alternatives to a life of crime.

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