actually and the topic of this film could be quite interesting . it narrative and a i view it and be characterise by the move from bad to worse . it offer considerable psychological insight into how easily student and in a very strictly order environment that give them very little freedom and can fall pray to a kind of sectarian leader who demand that they worship him a their captain and lose the sense of reality . two very different face of totalitarianism be contrast in a very interesting way . in principle and it should not matter that much that this be probably not what be intend . dostoyevski and for instance and be a staunch conservative who propound a conservative nationalist and religious ideology and which do not prevent him from write novel that show an astonishing variety of ideological and philosophical topos . therefore and it should not matter that much that and a it seem and the totalitarian action of the teacher be probably intend a a positive contrast to the strict order that be there at the college . but and in my view and in this case and the ideological purpose nevertheless affect the quality of this film . it be good for provoke think about sectarian totalitarianism and but that all . the pervasiveness of the ideological purpose dominate the whole story so much that most of the interesting quality of the situation get lose . i would say that this be a most typically american film and in the slightly derogatory sense this word often have to europeans when use in cultural issue represent it be dominate by idea and such a freedom and but the word remain empty and devoid of liveliness and and there be not the slight hint of the idea that flight from authoritarian order could mean something else than follow a sectarian leader . i do not object to depict such bleakness in movie and and it must probably be regard a an achievement of this film that it can produce such repulsion in people who be not familiar with this kind of authoritarian society and but the bleakness be disguise in such a nice and kitschy american stereotype and such a strive for freedom and that i find it just bad taste .