i be very disappointed with this film and and surprise that it have receive such wonderful review . can not anybody see that it doesn not make sense . i be 16 in 1983 and remember what school be like in the uk at that time . nobody be openly gay . most friend of mine at 17/18 be desperately try to lose their virginity with a girl . the few who later turn out to be gay probably start their sex live a bit later and at university . at school it be all a bit hysterical . teacher suspect of fondle be subject to whisper campaign and be ostracize and hound . why would the one boy who have manage to get somewhere with a girl be the one to offer a male teacher sex . why wouldn not any of his friend be the least bit surprise or worry about this behaviour . since when do kid in 1983 call someone a fuck . be the audience meant to accept that non oxbridge university like bristol and newcastle ( both excellent university . ) be ever second rate . maybe to a snob like bennett and but who care . why would an entire history class be the only one good enough to apply for oxbridge . none of it ring true . the only sympathetic character be rudge and and his character be also involve in the only piece of truth in the whole shoddy exercise he get into oxbridge because somebody know his father . in real life the others just wouldn not have get in certainly not the whole class . but bennett doesn not make u care anyway he too busy with his odd thesis for that but do not ask me what the thesis be because that not clear either . there much more . the use of griffith just make one remember his superb performance a a scary queer uncle in withnail and i a far superior film in which there be tension and emotion and and character you love ( withnail and i and uncle monty be all believable and comic and fully round ) none of which be on display here . we just do not care when he die and and we do not care what happen to the kid and a tell in the final scene and because the script doesn not go into who they really be and or what they want . the hook get into oxbridge doesn not seem to really concern them at any point in the film and so it fail a a tension provider . the real theme ( everyone gay ) be very ambiguous and never really come out to say what it think about itself ( the blowjob never even happen why not . do bennett chicken out . ) . the fact be and just a rudge get into oxford because of his dad and bennett get the film make because he a luvvy and with a troupe of backslapper tell him every word he write be as clever a hell . it have to be so and otherwise this tosh would never have make the screen . the next night i watch the last king of scotland . what a film . what performances . what a contrast with this limp piece of self indulgence .