The content of the film is heavier than I thought. I think that Jeremy Brett said about his Eaton career how much he envied those whose souls were not polluted by the darkness on campus. Religious and moving songs of praise, young figures in cricket uniforms running on the green ground, and the sunshine quietly spilling on the riverbank and arch bridges, classmates and teenagers are not cheap. However, behind the aura of the aristocratic public school is always surging with a river of dark, evil and ugly desire, from the routine bullying of new students to the fierce struggle of several campus elites, hypocrisy and high pressure, and even the faint rise of militarism.
Guy Bennete is extremely handsome, arrogant and unruly, with an artist and poet-like passion and kindness and a strong spirit of resistance, daring to love and hate, burning like a fire. Looking at the figure from the window sill and uttering too sweet love words, lying on the carpet under the moonlight in the sweetness and bewilderment of first love, in the small boat and the little lover James when he is gentle and intoxicated, in order to protect the lover to bear I cried so fragile for the first time after the huge humiliation. But all this is the same as his roommate who believes in communism. It is not tolerated by the times. The violence of the crowd is terrifying. Even the beautiful things, as long as they are defined as aliens, can be crushed and trampled without hesitation. .
In the end, the gray-haired Guy, he was still him, the young man who was outstanding at the Eton campus back then, with dazzling pride and blindness. But when asked what he missed, he just said "cricket" lightly. It was a sport he wasn't keen on when he was young, and left everything to his heart.
The details of this film are very full, so it can be regarded as a small encyclopedia of the British aristocratic boys' school. The downside is that it ended hurriedly (I watched the abridged version?), people did not react, and did not explain how many things happened to the male protagonist.
*Private preferences: clothing choices (suits, shirts, vests, don't be too British), beautiful English accent, black curly hair and blond boy CP (the same is true for Morris, what's the law), choir. So much selfishness is satisfied, I really can't be more excited.
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