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If.... (1968)
Rate:
3
Viewed:
2/14
2/14:
If not for Malcolm McDowell (who was good in anything he did), If.... would've been dismissed as a pseudo-babble
allegorical picture about England's school system.
Nothing makes sense. I was forced to watch the backwardness of the characters. There's an inexplicable scene when
the female faculty member walked naked in the boys' dorm. Explain that to me, but wait a second...I don't really care. Ditto for
the "tiger mating" scene with the nude waitress. It turns out Malcolm McDowell wanted to see Christine Noonan naked;
hence, he asked her, and the rest was history.
To solve the problem is to have a school shooting. Brilliant thinking. However, I'm confused: is school voluntary for many
students, and they can leave any time they want to? I read that some of the viewers found many
instances in If.... true when they were former students at these schools in England. Well, pity the fools for
doing nothing about it and letting the situation go. That's why the United States of America was founded: to escape the
backward Dark Ages culture.
Another annoying aspect is the back-and-forth between color and black-and-white. It's been mentioned the filmmakers ran
out of money and had to make do with the rest. The other reason is that they simply got lazy and shot the scenes in black and
white.
All in all, If.... is a ridiculous picture that was made for the delusional, pathetic fanboys.