Saturday, February 23, 2019

If... (1968)


IMDb plot summary: In this allegorical story, a revolution led by pupil Mick Travis takes place at an old established private school in England.
Directed by Lindsay Anderson. Starring Malcolm McDowell, David Wood, Richard Warwick, and Christine Noonan.

There's a part of me that can understand and even appreciate what this film is doing... but it doesn't really work for me on any kind of emotional level. I spent most of my time just trying to make sense of specific artistic choices. But it's fun to see Malcolm McDowell in his first screen role -- and you can definitely see how this performance connected to his performance just a few years later as A Clockwork Orange's Alex.

How it entered my Flickchart:
If... < Star Trek Into Darkness
If... > The Proposal
If... < Love's Labour's Lost
If... > Luther
If... < X2
If... > Tombstone
If... < The Baby-Sitters Club
If... < Zero Dark Thirty
If... > Arlington Road
If... < Last of the Red Hot Lovers
If... < Con Air
If... < The Librarian: Quest for the Spear

Final spot: #1957 out of 2922.

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