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List Price: $39.95 Our Price: $35.99 You Save: $3.96 Features • Color • DVD-Video • Widescreen • NTSC In Theaters : 1968 DVD Release : 19 June, 2007 |
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| ♥♥♥♥♥ | Private school rebellion |
| Film set in 60s in the upper class boy's private school in England, shows the daily life of the adolescent boys. We see them bond, study, daydream and misbehave. They are governed by all male staff and the only two women around them are the elderly nurse and the wife of the principal. Boys feel smothered in the close quarters of the boarding school and confused about their sexual awakening. The sexual repression leads them to be mean to each other and to generally rebel against all rules of conduct asdefined by the authorities at school (i.e. their teachers and tutors). This is the time when physical punishment is an acceptable practice of disciplining the boys. Other than sports, these boys have no outlets to express themselves, or their emotions. In turn they steal, skip classes and exhibit resistance in only way they know - by fighting. Before long we see them as they see themselves. Liberators from the establishment, they fight evil with evil because no one thought them any better. This film is ultimate show of how unhappiness can have a disasterous consequences. A classic film for any generation that made young actor Malcolm McDowell famous. | |
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