Awaydays

Awaydays is based on the bestselling novel by Kevin Sampson. Set in the post-punk era in the North West of England. Paul Carty (Nicky Bell) is 19, good-looking, funny, clever - and bored out of his mind. His mother died a year ago. He lives in middle class suburbia with his silently grieving father and feisty young sister, Molly. Carty works as a junior civil servant and spends all his wages on gigs, clubs, records and football. It's at a match that he meets Elvis (Liam Boyle). Elvis changes everything. He's part of a gang called The Pack. The Pack is legendary; they dress in a cultish, almost effeminate style that's at odds with the Boneheads and Bootboys they fight against. They have androgynous wedge haircuts worn with Lacoste tennis shirts, Lois jeans and Adidas Forest Hills training shoes.

For as long as he has been going to football, Carty has been fascinated by The Pack. Now Elvis is offering him a way in.. Songs like Joy Division, sometimes thrilling in one part, but calm on the other side. This is a story about two friends in the late 70's in the UK: Carty (Nicky Bell), a student of art, well, that his mother had just died and met Elvis (Liam Boyle) is charismatic. They met at a concert Echo & The Bunnymen. Through Elvis, Carty wanted to be accepted to be part of a group pengggemar football team Tranmere Rovers, known as The Pack, led John Godden (Stephen Graham), a man in his mid-thirties who looks physically very different age than young men.

Although Elvis Carty warned to not have to deal with the Pack, Carty insisted want to be accepted in the group's hooligans. Their ritual is to cause chaos in other cities, and fighting with supporters groups in the city's ball. Carty found the fugitive and the apparent happiness of friendship with the hooligans, while Elvis actually wanted to get out of the group. Carty and Elvis are two characters representing the football fans and music lovers. Songs that sound throughout the film will be cut on your forehead furrow is difficult to listen to conversations of the players with the Cockney accent is often difficult to understand unless of course you watch the full version of the translation.

But even though the storyline is quite slow, and the cinematography is not as beautiful as Hollywood films, we can easily understand that the search for identity in any part of the same country.Two characters are in some ways we can represent the often thirst for self-actualization in the context of this film, they express themselves with the hooligans who make trouble in the enemy city. If you liked films like This Is England, will easily Quadrophenia.You can fell in love with this movie.