ah and the spirit of 68. the street of paris be run wild with rebellion and the hippy be high on the spirit of love . how be britain mark this age of radicalism and revolution . erm and by the look of it and dear old blighty be focus on make film about boy in boarding school . if . contain the evil establishment . it contain the uprising of the oppress . what it lack in contrast to the parisien passion and the hippy headtripping be any sense of excitement and except in it all out ammo and artillery fire end . lindsay anderson if . star the ever marvellous malcolm mcdowell a one of three private school pupil who decorate their dorm with photo of lenin and other leave wing radical . it clearly an anti establishment movie in it depiction of the evil upper class oiks who rule the roost and the antiquated autocratic practice of the pish posh public school standard . what make if . unusual though be that for all it radical sympathy and it doesn not explicitly give u any sense of great tension between human decency and the despotic school system and instead it just kind of float represent lack in plot and lacking in personality . surrealist bit fade in and out occasionally and the film slip from black and white to colour again ( be it due to the low budget or be it an arty expression . ) and but there be little of interest to speak of . all we get be the poignant denouement where the young rebel reach for their rifle and shoot down the shady overlord of the establishment . hooray . a revolution . at last something that demand a second thought unlike the rest of this dull exercise in board school daydreaming . if . could have be a powerful political statement and but a it be it drifts and only gather any sense of direct interest at the end . instead of be a testament to the dissident zeitgeist of the late sixty and it only succeed in be a dazed document of upper class british education . anarchy . apathy more like and the only man many viewer will want to stick it to after watch if . will be lindsay anderson .