Legend has it that Tim Roth got the part of Trevor when his bike got a puncture and stumbled in on Alan Clarke's casting session by mistake. Legend or fact aside, Roth gives one of THE British performances of the 80s or any decade for that matter, rivaled only by Winstone in the earlier Scum or Gary Oldman in the later Firm. Of course Clarke directed those two films as well and is sorely missed with his untimely death from cancer in 1990.
Trevor is verbally and physically violent but also incredibly articulate as he demolishes the care system around him. There are only two points in the film where he is rendered speechless; the first when given an excellent illustration of the predicament he has trapped himself in by a social worker, the second when he finally deals with the Police who chillingly sum up his now adult position by the words, "We've got you now young offender."
Clarke as usual never comments but just observes with his heavy use of steadicam. There is no escape for Roth with establishing shots and the like so he has to inhabit Trevor completely-never more so when looking at the fake nuclear family through a shop window.
Made In Britain is a key work in the cannon of Thatcher's Britain films and an excellent companion to Shane Meadows' This Is England. Perhaps the tabloid press and the media as a whole should watch this and reassure themselves that our "Broken Society" has always been the same-just replace hoodies with skinheads.

Fantastic Show, Pre-Pulp fiction Tim Roth unbelievable, and The Exploited soundtrack/opening credits "UK82' Classic