Oh those British rebels of the 1960s. Here Malcolm McDowell plays Michael "Nick" Travis, teenager living life in the English public school system. Sometimes the film is black and white and kind of surreal but mostly its shot in a very dull color that's naturalistic and appropriate for the film. Why it switches from color to black and white is debatable. Dated in a good way, this film is a great example of systems of tradition and rules and conformity sometimes creating they very opposition they thwart. Grade: B
Spoiler: The end was haunting. All I could think about was Columbine and other school shootings. A film like this couldn't be made today. What was purely fantastic in the '60s has now become a tragic reality.
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