Autumn is very much associated with that movie for me
Me too. It's the opening sequence with the trees and the bagpipes and the geese (were there geese?), isn't it? I went to prep school myself; although it's an American movie, I find there's quite a lot of old-fashioned 'Englishness' about the whole picture, which might well relate to your reference to 'New English school stories'. It's probably the stress on class and keeping up appearances and repression (which is where the slash comes in ;) Boarding schools have got to be, in my mind, one of the all-time hot-beds for angsty self-importance. Such an unnatural environment for all those rushing hormones.
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Me too. It's the opening sequence with the trees and the bagpipes and the geese (were there geese?), isn't it? I went to prep school myself; although it's an American movie, I find there's quite a lot of old-fashioned 'Englishness' about the whole picture, which might well relate to your reference to 'New English school stories'. It's probably the stress on class and keeping up appearances and repression (which is where the slash comes in ;) Boarding schools have got to be, in my mind, one of the all-time hot-beds for angsty self-importance. Such an unnatural environment for all those rushing hormones.
I might have to buy the DVD...