The film centers on Finley (Evan Bendall) a student who lives in a flat with his older brother Jake (Tom Cox) and his hot Eastern European girlfriend Mia (Michaela Prchalová). Jake is on the brutish side and Mia has taken a shine to Fin. Fin is a disruptive student and has frequent mother flashbacks. He hangs out with a couple of other trouble makers. We get 30 minutes of character build-up until a teacher decides to abduct two boys (part of the official film description) and forces them to learn while restrained and at the threat of a nail gun.
The film was on the boring side. If you are really into British literature themes and allegories, ie. Dickens, Hobbs, Golding, Orwell etc. and watching kids suffer, this is your film. Now I imagine there are a lot of frustrated teachers who could really get into this production, however, I am not one of them. The nearly hour long instruction started to grow boring and I began to look for the allegory in this film, attempting to place the characters into societal stereo-types/molds, but was unable to do so, failing to grasp the cleverness others saw in this feature, perhaps due to my own lack of classical literature education...although admittedly I had read nearly everything mentioned except for that London chartered street thing and Brontë because real Brits don't have umlauts.
Guide: F-word. No nudity. Implied sex.
The film was on the boring side. If you are really into British literature themes and allegories, ie. Dickens, Hobbs, Golding, Orwell etc. and watching kids suffer, this is your film. Now I imagine there are a lot of frustrated teachers who could really get into this production, however, I am not one of them. The nearly hour long instruction started to grow boring and I began to look for the allegory in this film, attempting to place the characters into societal stereo-types/molds, but was unable to do so, failing to grasp the cleverness others saw in this feature, perhaps due to my own lack of classical literature education...although admittedly I had read nearly everything mentioned except for that London chartered street thing and Brontë because real Brits don't have umlauts.
Guide: F-word. No nudity. Implied sex.