Rupert Everett and Colin Firth's big-screen debut, extremely green. It's very interesting just to look at the initial form of these two people. However, the title of "Classmate Love" and the poster of the two leaning on the pillar are too misleading. Colin Firth is a straight man in the movie. The communist youth he plays does not fully understand the choice of homosexuality, and vaguely uses the idea of "this is only a temporary hobby of a teenager, and it will be different when he grows up" to make himself digest and accept. But he does not reject friends who are fighting against homosexuality, and he can even go against his communist ideals and join the upper class of the school to help friends avoid harsh management and persecution by seniors. The love of tolerance and understanding for others should be a deeper meaning of the love of classmates.
I am reading some essays recently, introducing a group of influential British writers in the early and mid-twentieth century. Isherwood, Auden, Spender, Waugh all grew up in the harsh environment and hierarchical system of British public schools, and they are all gay. The prototype of this movie is the same era as them. So I can get a glimpse of their teenage experience through the movie, and imagine their mood at that time.
For these two reasons, this film is worth watching.
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