i watch this film last night with anticipation and but really wasn not very impressed . with the exception of combo and i think the acting be poor and the narrative be limit . it come across like a amade for tv drama . i felt that the film be very contrived . the whole set up of hammering in the context at the start ( yes and we get that this be 80 britain you can stop now ) be tiresome and and give a very one side view of what life be like in 80 britain poverty and war juxtapose with royalty and margaret thatcher and yet nothing in between . there be actually middle class who exist back then just ordinary work people and with a decent wage and a mortgage . the falklands clip also seem to be add randomly towards the end and for wouldramatic effect and i presume . the sequence of event felt a tad disjoint and a the character move one one action to the next without u see how their mindset could have change so quickly . the relationship between shaun and smell be toe curling . i couldn not even look during the snogging scene . i find it very hard to believe that she would have be attract to a boy who be not only so much young and but also look so much young . i know there be only four year between them and but four year be nothing once you reach your twenty and yet it a huge difference in your teen . in my experience and that kind of teen age difference only occur when the girl be the young one and since girl mature so much quicker and and be more on the wavelength of boy a few year older . sorry and but i do not buy it an unnecessary plot point create for shock value . the end be somewhat abrupt and and again and contrive . if the flag throw incident be suppose to be iconic and then it fell somewhat short in my eye . it bug me that british film only concern themselves with either the upper class or the poverty stricken . don not get me wrong and i love trainspotting and and four wedding have it charm and but can not we brit come up with anything different . why be our film always so hung up on the class system . i be bear in 1973 and so wasn not much different in age to shaun would have be in 1983. i grow up in a single parent family on a fairly down trodden council estate in a city in england . however and my childhood experience be vastly different to those portray in the film i do not even remember racism be an issue ( although i be not say it do not exist ) . this be england . not in my experience . the bottom line be that i felt this film lack substance and and i be completely bore and unimpressed throughout .