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The film Green Street Hooligans (2006) is about some young boys and their relation to hooliganism. In the film we meet Matt Buckner, who is getting wrongfully expelled from Harvard. He moves to London to his sister, Shannon, but gets dragged into the violent world of football and hooliganism. Matt’s sister is married to the earlier Major, Steve, who has a brother, Pete, which is now controlling their firm. (GSE) Matt visits his sister and Steve, when Pete is also there. Pete is forced to take Matt to football game and in the beginning they don’t get along. But after some drinking and fighting they get along. The movie ends when Matt is still involved to the hooliganism and at big fight against their rivals Pete gets killed. …show more content…

Even though they are having these fights and “wars”, where they fight to die for cause, they are having real dreams about a world with peace and with no war. They try to follow and learn from their “heroes”, which in this case is the Major. In reality they are really ashamed of they are doing, and their fights are called “killing field, because when you are in a fight you actually kill more for the person than you really can imagine. Besides that the unity and the community is described as a really thick bond, where they got each other’s backs. Their relationship is so close that they are “brothers”. “Where the hills forever burn” Here it says something about how terrible it really is to live like that. It’s hard and difficult, but you fight for your brothers and your reputation.
Bert Trautmann experienced an accident, where he broke his neck in a soccer game. I believe it shows that you have to be thankful for what you got. Like Bert says, he was happy that he could just survive and that he could ever play soccer again. Besides that Bert has been to a war, but it is another war than the one the boys in the film are having. Bert has been fighting for his country in the second world war, and compared to Matt and Pete, who have been fighting for their reputation he have done a huge thing by fighting because it is for other people.
In the movie Matt says “Pete Dunham's life taught me there's a time to stand your ground, and his death

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