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Hidden Behind the Screen
10Aug11
It's amazing how this is so definitive of the times in which it's made yet any teenage boy can relate to this even today...
catch_33
3May11
Incredible account of a film responding to its times in such an immediate fashion. A film that attempts to cut the cord on societal repression and tradition and instead replace it with a freedom of ideology, a freedom of expression, in essence, the freedom of the individual. McDowell embodies the anarchist youth, whose conflict is mirrored by the struggle between reality and fantasy the film so effortlessly depicts.
ruby stevens
24Mar11
the original display of malcolm mcdowell's psychotic charm. the influence of jean vigo's brilliant anarchist zéro de conduite is most evident in the last scene
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Jonathan Poritsky
7Feb11
This is a film I am constantly put off deconstructing its many layers, but a new one has occurred to me....what's up with the four dots? Typographically speaking, I would say four ellipses but it's really a single ellipsis and a period. I have always assumed the title was an implication of revolution, taken to mean "If (Fill in the Blank)" but now I think the fourth dot implies truncation. But what's in a name?
Guillermo Padilla
18Jul10
Antes de la naranja mecánica este desplante visual contra el costumbrismo inglés ya entrado en crisis a finales de los 70's, nos muestra a los estudiantes de una escuela con todo el estilo "Hogwarts" que intentan seguir bajo una hipocrita disciplina los lineamentos del "buen inglés", un grupo de rebeldes lidereados por Mick Travis (Malcolm McDowell) buscan lo contrario, liberarse, romper, violentar...
Slowart
20May10
that's 100% right what linklater says in his audio comment to dazed and confused, to make an ultimate high school movie, the school should be burning in the last act
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Hideous Bitch Princess
3Apr10
I liked the scene where they steal the motorcycle and ride around, followed by the black and white part with the girl and the cafe. That's all I remember about it.
richmondhill
7Feb10
Probaby the best filmic summation of Anderson's pet topics around monolithic British institutions. As a record of the happiest days of your life, you can practically smell the overboiled cabbage and cheap disinfectant. Potent on any level.
Halim Cillov
10Oct09
Such a revolutionary film. Its hard to believe that this came before the Columbine even happened. I guess the director and the screenwriter had a pretty firm grasp on reality and where the things will go... It's worth to watch even just for the 'explosive' ending of the film!
Jimmy Cline
26Sep09
For now I will just say that I could watch a recording of the young Malcolm Macdowell playing solitaire alone, in a white room, and basically find it riveting.