If… (1968)

Director: Lindsay Anderson

Which side will you be on?

Writer: David Sherwin & John Howlett

Starring: Malcolm McDowell, David Wood, Richard Warwick

The film was a core text in my Film Studies A-Level at college and it is an awesomely random film. It follows an anti-instituional character, Mick Travis (McDowell) as he returns to study at a 1960’s private school in England. Him and his friends are all about teenage rebellion and the film comes to a dramatic ending when Mick, Johnny, Wallace and some girl the three picked up ub a cafe open fire as the school’s teachers and students come out of the church.They were already seriously warped by the ideal that war as the last possible creative act(??) The film is shot in a picture of black and white and colour with occasional random inserts. Though the film may be considered hard work to get through, it is a masterpiece of it’s time.

BES T QUOTE

Mick Travis: What stands, if freedom falls? Who dies, if England lives?

8/10

~ by ejmarquez on October 14, 2009.