If... Evil is everywhere

Jefferey 2022-01-11 08:02:19

(Spoiler) The ending of "If..." may be reminiscent of Githyunson's "The Elephant". The bullied student shoots at the campus with guns, which shows "If..." The forward-looking of director Lindsay Anderson. He also clearly stated that the film has a prophetic nature. What if the tension between students and the system continues? The fiery student movement in 1968 and the subsequent school shooting tragedies confirmed Anderson's predictions were sadly accurate.

But "If..." adopts a relaxed tone, abandoning the compact plot, and the description of violence is not particularly heavy. Outside of the main line of resistance, the director casually shows the life of the students in the boarding school. Mike and his old friends Wallace and Johnny took advantage of the school ball game to walk on the street, playing the shadowless sword and other scenes are probably to pay tribute to "Four Hundred Strikes" and "Happy Together" (Antoni version): Youth is freedom! Based on his personal experience and real scenes, the director invites real students in the school to be "promotions" to show the phenomenon of power relations on campus in a realistic way. There is both authoritarian pervasiveness and the pleasure of secretly committing crimes. The relaxed and humorous tone has developed, but it has become surrealism. Mike and his old friend skipped school to the coffee shop, and forced a kiss of the girl who was watching the shop, but got a wild "counterattack." It was obviously a sexual fantasy. Inserting the naked embracing and biting scenes just made the words clearer. The girl seems to be Mike's alter ego instead of a real person, suggesting that her inner wildness is released. So she would appear unreasonably when Mike was punished to clean up the school basement, and there would be a box of munitions in the basement-who put it in? The answer may be the same as the video tape in Michael Haneke's Hidden, from the director's own "crossing" sex... ( full text http://wp.me/p8iPwg-hlw )

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Extended Reading
  • Chloe 2022-03-25 09:01:15

    I need to digest. The film abandons the coherence of the narrative as a whole, in exchange for so many metaphors, it is difficult to fully understand it for a while. The value of this film, like many films in the beginning of the new wave, lies in enlightenment. Watching it continue to perform zero points, and then almost every scene of my own has been copied countless times, I thought it was completely understandable, but it didn't. In this sense, I want to hit a high score.

  • Alisa 2022-03-26 09:01:10

    One man can change the world with a bullet in the right place.

If.... quotes

  • Headmaster: Education in Britain is a nubile Cinderella: sparsely clad and much interfered with.

  • Headmaster: Boys! Boys! I understand you! Listen to reason and trust me! Trust me!

    [the Girl pulls out a pistol and shoots him in the forehead]