it's witty, showing the difference between the old methods of teaching and the new ones. As we all know, we're living in a time of competition. People just study for the sake of study. (like what Irwin taught the boys... all they got to do was to aim at the interview questions to get into oxbridge) That's quite right. I mean we can't even afford the time to be carefree and talk about the "meaningless" stuff. The "meaningless" things like poetry taught by Hector is actually deeper and more insightful. But in these days, who cares about that? This is kind of the tragedy we're living in reflected from this film, showing the declining education system, yet the new methods aren't bad. They teach us to have more "flair" according to the film.
Another thing that really amazed me is the topic about homosexuality. The whole plot revolves around this. Alan Bennett is explosive, putting everything into this film and yet adds a tinge of wit to it. The 1980s I assume (I wasn't even born yet) was a time of experiencing new things, just like what the people from the 30s did. New things and senses struck us, and the film is not afraid to talk about this in a positive way. However, I'm still quite confused about Dakin... He's like bisexual or something, or is he just trying to break away from the conventions in life after he got into oxford? something as a release.
On the whole, this movie deserves all its awards and apparently Alan Bennett's script adds some really striking and charming dialogues to the film.
"But this is History. Distance yourselves. Our perspective on the past alters. Looking back, immediately in front of us is dead ground. We don't see it, and because we don't see it this means that there is no period so remote as the recent past. And one of the historian's jobs is to anticipate what our perspective of that period will be... even on the Holocaust. "
I find this quite true as a History student. History actually needs us to be the spectator and views things from an objective way, and be fair about the events and people. Our perspective changes as time changes.
Stephen Campbell Moore is talented as Irwin, and of course Richard Griffiths and the guy playing Dakin and Posner. I heard there was the play in HK before, but I didn't get to watch it... anyway, I've watched A Good Woman, and Moore is just awesome, although he doesn't have a really big role in the film. I've just ordered Bright Young Things, his debut movie in Stephen Fry's debut directorial film. Hopefully, it will be more sparkling and witty than those period dramas.
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