This a very frightening film. To think that the olde...r kids have not learnt anything about social life and slowly they themselves become savages is mind blowing This is a film to watch because one can only hope that society has changed. Looking at a documentary of kids in a classroom nowadays seems just the same, again way out of control. They rule and the teachers obey. I am 64 years and in my day we would not dare. I do not condone the cane but under strict control, I think that it should be available. Cameras prove the problems in school. Some of the kids in the film were very young and indeed very vulnerable. There were not camera tricks or CGI. and the film depicted very real concerns
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an amazing piece in cinematic hi...story, the film has an amazing mindset filmed in black and white, i dare say it wouldn't have had the same atmospheric richness if set in colour, a crowd of school children diving deep into the somewhat cruel underbelly of children been left to their own devices after a plane crash on the island, class vs class and how one class has this godlike complex they are better than the other trying to form a hang man and jury against another class, kind of dog eat dog scenario
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A film I've always wanted to see, great story.
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Great film.
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In this second version of William Golding's novel, a group... of cadets from an American military school are stranded on a desert island, along with the wounded pilot, after their plane crashes. Eventually the camp divides; Ralph (Getty) and Piggy (Pipoly) represent the values imposed by adults and civilisation; while they struggle to maintain a signal fire, Jack (Furrh) and his band of hunters, giving way to more primitive impulses, run rampage and turn murderous. The film, simplistically assuming the book's central metaphor to be imperialism - hence the military slant - retains the bare bones of Gollding's narrative, but that's all. There's little attempt to hint at the deeper issues, while the revelatory moment when the impaled pig's head looms in the clearing to reveal man's inner darkness, is merely flat. Executive producer Lewis Allen also produced Peter Brook's superior 1963 version; he took on the project after learning that TV producers planned a remake with an 'upbeat ending'. This is better than that, but not nearly good enough.