CheerupSilver Very Cool!!!

MamaGravity good back-story, and good acting

Beystiman It's fun, it's light, [but] it has a hard time when its tries to get heavy.

Mandeep Tyson The acting in this movie is really good.

duffjerroldorg I was in a sort of daze for hours after seeing If...for the first time in 2017. A work of art? Certainly but also a poetic historical document. After all the film dates back to 1968. 1968! when things were really changing and youth was taking a step forward, reminding the older generation that we'll be suffering the consequences of your thoughtlessness. So move over or else. I remember my father despising this film, he call it, propaganda. Propaganda?Maybe that's why I never saw it, until now. I was really moved by the film. Malcolm McDowell is the perfect man to incarnate the revolution that was about to come. It also made me look for all of Lindsay Anderson films - Just half a dozen feature films but my God! What an extraordinary director.

SnoopyStyle The student are returning to a British boarding school. Mick (Malcolm McDowell) and his friends are the constantly chaffing at the Whips, the upper classmen in charge of the students. The adults defers to the Whips. The lower classmen or Scums are menial servants for the Whips. It culminates in Mick and his friends being canned by the Whips. Mick gives his friends some bullets. Together they go on surreal shooting sprees.I have never been in a boarding school and it's a little tough to get a feel for this movie. This seems more like 'Lord of the Flies' with rules and traditions. Then it throws in some surrealism. This seems very unreal but I can't tell what's reasonable and what's not. I was actually glad when the movie goes fully surreal in the last act. The last half is definitely shocking and takes a left turn somewhere.

Cheese Hoven This ambitious (if a little pretentious) film is among the most interesting and intelligent in the history of British cinema. Certainly many of its themes: the casual cruelty meted out to boys (still an unspoken reality of society) and the need to rebel against stuffy and oppressive institutions are very powerfully depicted here, as powerful as have ever been committed to celluloid.Sometimes I feel that just too much has been crammed into the film and many narrative strands are not very well developed. A new boy is introduced at the start but his story is jettisoned in favour of a good looking boy who is fuelling everybody's (apparently) sexual fantasies. Even worse is the case of the new master introduced at the same time, and presumably to counterbalance, the new boy. His story fizzles out almost immediately.The female love interest of Malcolm Macdowell is rather superficially written, almost as if the writers felt the need to insert a girl into what otherwise would be all almost entirely male film (the other female characters are of no consequence).The once famous use of cutting between colour and black and white wears thin. It use seems entirely arbitrary.Despite this, If remains a powerful film with many memorable scenes.

gavin6942 In this allegorical story, a revolution lead by pupil Mick Travis (Malcolm McDowell) takes place at an old established private school in England.This is Malcolm McDowell in his first screen role. Although his career as a whole has gone more or less downhill since the 1960s, he started out strong here and it is easy to see how he was selected to be the lead in "A Clockwork Orange" (Mick and Alex are not all that different in many ways).I must confess I had never heard of this film until seeing Marc Cousins' documentary "The Story of Film". I feel like a huge gap in my knowledge of cinema was filled by seeing this, and I cannot recommend it enough to those who want to see a key film in the era of youth in rebellion.