Excellent but underrated film

A waste of 90 minutes of my life

What a freaking movie. So many twists and turns. Absolutely intense from start to finish.

Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

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 Certainly but also a poetic historical document.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.

OK I know this movie included Malcolm McDowell before he got involved with "A Clockwork Orange". I thought at the beginning, it just made me bored straight away because there's pretty much no action. Its just like a typical all-lads boarding school which involves a strict timetable and strict teachers. I felt they should've developed McDowell's character more because he didn't seem to be confident in being a bad boy. Although in the end, he brought a gun to the school but i could be wrong. Ysee, i only watched 30 minutes of this film so I didn't bother finding out the end until i looked at the photos on IMDb. I just think this film is boring and pretty much lazy, I wouldn't consider this as the best movie of the 1960's.

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.

I just watched this movie and i am sooo confused. I guess there's some old political British message hidden in it or something, but i don't get it all. I feel like you never got to know the characters. It was just a bunch of boys with the exact same haircut and clothes and i don't even remember if they ever mentioned any names. The only person i knew who he was was the lead character and the random coffee girl, thats all. I never really understood or cared about any of them or the story. I just thought it was about a bunch of sexually frustrated boys who liked to play innocent tricks on the teachers. That's what i thought until the final scene. The shooting scene. Then i just got confused and slightly shocked. I get that they hated school, but a massive shooting? Killing people? Why? Was the point of the movie that school can drive someone insane or what? Also the switching between black and white to colour was annoying as hell, even if i know it was because of money issues.