112 minute running time … so about 12 minutes too long. British public schoolboy revenge fantasy from the late 1960s … Malcolm McDowell plays Malcolm McDowell (he had the same role in A Clockwork Orange more or less) … rotten rich kids who hated the hypocrisy, the capricious authority, I guess... all about rebellion.
There’s a strong homosexual vein running through the whole movie as well. It’s an interesting movie, the flip flopping between color and black and white doesn’t delineate fantasy and reality, it’s not that simple. And the British Empire was pretty dead by 1969, I think.
I watched this because only one visitor to the Criterion Closet (Andrew Haigh) in the whole history of hundreds of visitors selected it.
Rating is 3.5 … I watched it start to finish, enjoyed a lot of it, though it’s a little too long.
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