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These
are the things that change boys to men…
The History Boys follows the lives of
several young men who discover
themselves while studying for exams that
will take them to the best of the best
of schools in London.
It is
imperative that the gentlemen are at the
top of their class and their performance
is peak because it falls on the schools
shoulders which haven’t rested easy
since the final grades were posted.
As the
boys are bunched into small classroom
settings authoritative teachers that are
masters at the subject matter are
prompted to take no chances and cover
everything so that the students will be
ready to join the scholarly.
But the
teachers have their own way of preparing
the students for matters that lye in and
out of the classroom.
In the
smallest of glimpses you almost know
that The History Boys is going to be a
fantastic film. Based on the successful
play in London and the New York Tour
that includes predominantly the same
actors, The History Boys is off to a
good start.
The film
touches on taboo subjects such as Hector
(Richard Griffiths) the English teacher
who loves to ‘fondle’ the boys and is
caught doing so and struggles with the
consequences that lye before him. And
the boys themselves who are challenging
stirring emotions inside that are
unfamiliar and daunting but intriguing
at times, too insist on growing and
grasping it willfully or resistant.
With
such a broad title as The History Boys
one wonders if it touches the subject of
men in time who are finding themselves
through sexual intercourse with either
gender and with becoming a man or just
the struggle of these particular young
men.
The
History Boys is a must see because it’s
like great literature on film. It’s
expressive and impressive dialect is
charming and witty on English terms but
intuitive and humorous all around.
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