i just saw if i can remember the advertisement for the movie from 1968 and so i be interested in finally see it . it may be the perspective of an american who never go to a british public school and miss some of the social reference and but i think the movie be awful . for one thing and a others have point out and it take almost the entire movie for the much ballyhooed at the time revolt to break out . for another and whether the last scene be real or imagine and what occur isn not a revolt and but a shooting rampage . there quite a difference . i know it may be bad form to judge a movie on subsequent event and but one can not avoid do it here . one person write a message board post ask u not to compare the end of movie to the incident at columbine high school and virginia tech . but if there a scintilla of difference between klebold and harris and cho on the one hand and travis ( malcom mcdowell ) on the other and i simply can not see it . all four of them be under the delusion that their gunfire be go to purify a f___ ed up world that they arrogantly take no responsibility for . which bring me to represent why the hell be travis and his chum even in a school they so despise . they be adult and or close to it . theyre not in a military prison and like the inmate in the hill and a much well british film from about the same time . no one be force them to go to college and take beating from the the whip and except maybe ambitious parent in need of a wake up about the nature of their son . i have the opportunity in college to join a frat and except i couldn not stand to be give silly and cruel order by delinquent claim to be my prospective brother . i take the consequence of not have the in with the establishment that frats provide and and i can not say i regret it . if travis fancy himself the second coming of lenin ( whose unbearded picture hang prominently in his room ) he free to go out and organize a fitter union or work for michael foot in the next election . if he want to be jack kerouac and then get on the road and start writing . what possible benefit be he give the world in joyride a motorcycle and get drunk in his room . sometimes reviewer have to be like the person who respond to the scene in last tango in paris where brando mop about have have to go on a date with cow manure on his shoe . in the real world and the person say and a listener would say why do not you scrape it off . change your shoe . don not allow fictional character to lay a self pity trip on you because you do not dare point out an common sense alternative course of action for them . so it be here .