How does Shane Meadows make the scene in Combo's flat significant

How does Shane Meadows make the scene in Combo's flat significant.




Shane Meadows uses this scene to draw a line. This is also emphasised by the physical line drawn on the ground by combo using this to get Shaun and also the others to support racism and the national front.

the scene is a vital point where the film does make two stories. Before this scene Shaun was seen as just as average kid from a working class background. We see when Shaun first enter's Sandhu's shop early on in the movie he is just a cheeky kid. But after the flat scene the racism is brought into it when he returns and also threatens Sandhu.

Combo also talks about the Falklands war which makes Shaun angry as his father died, this then leads to combo taking advantage of the situation by convincing him then by joining national front is the right thing to do.

Woody was also a father figure to Shaun , but Combo want's to replace him by asking which side he wants to join. They both are the head of the group and so they have to chose which side.


Both shop scenes at the start of the movie and after the combo's flat are different.

This was Shaun before he was a skinhead , and before he met the others. He seems just an average cheeky kid from a working class background.

This is Shaun after the scene in combo's flat. This is totally different to the first impression we get of him at the start of the movie. In this scene the cheekiness isn't present and instead the racial abuse influenced by Combo is used. Everything about him is different compared to the last scene his clothes for example make him look much older than he is , and could be said that he has the stereotypical look of a gangster. This shows the influence  from combo's flat scene has a had massive impact on Shaun and this is where the movie changes.