Content and Spoiler Warning:  This film dramatizes bullying, violence, against children, and a school shooting.  Those who may not want to listen to this episode should skip this one and join us next week.

Can an all-boys boarding school serve as a microcosm of an entire nation's fractured state of values?  More importantly: should it?  Director Lindsay Anderson subverts the slice-of-life routines and indignities of British school life with deft surrealist touches and a Malcom MacDowell-starring cast embracing nihilism and revenge.

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If you’d like to watch ahead for next week’s film, we will be discussing and reviewing Mario Monicelli's Big Deal on Madonna Street (1958).