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Shortfatdyke

07:36 / 03.04.02

has anyone seen this film? i saw it years ago, and jumped at the chance to see it again the other day. i still absolutely love it - the horrendous school life, the weird surreal bits, the mixture of black and white and colour film, the story itself and the wonderful ending - matched my own schoolday fantasies of arming a few fellow pissed off classmates and taking the whole fucking lot of em down! i forgot how queer it was. i used to have a huge article/essay on the film, which i've long since lost, but if anyone knows what i'm talking about, pitch in, please. and remember -

RUN! RUN IN THE CORRIDOR!

Spatula Clarke

07:48 / 03.04.02

Just for reference, an older If... thread.

gozer the destructor

08:02 / 03.04.02

Is it on at the Cinema or something? I haven't seen it.

Shortfatdyke

08:32 / 03.04.02

gozer - it appears to have been re-released to some extent. i saw it at the prince charles cinema, but check time out, it may well be on elsewhere.

if there's been a fairly recent thread on the film, perhaps this one should be closed. however, i am looking at the film from a different angle to the previous thread - as someone with a huge chip on my shoulder classwise, i always thought i'd be unsympathetic to toffs having a hard time at school. but misery is misery whoever is on the recieving end, and rebellion is possible and necessary at all levels of society to make things better.

gozer the destructor

08:36 / 03.04.02

You should contribute to the thread i have set up in headshop...the revolting proleteriat...

rizla mission

12:45 / 03.04.02

I think my 'If..' senses have been dulled by overexposure, but as my favourite film of all time, it's only right & proper that I must make *some* comment in a new thread about it..

The Return Of Rothkoid

13:09 / 03.04.02

Threads can't be closed now - they can only be moved, or deleted. So we could let this one die, and revive the other one, or...?

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