The History Boys review
Sep. 29th, 2007 02:57 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alobearAdapted from an Alan Bennett play by the playwright himself, The History Boys tells of eight boys preparing for the Oxbridge exam and interviews at their chosen colleges in 1983.
Very much a play put onto the screen, the dialogue was often stilted and unrealistic, though certainly not badly written, and most of the actors enunciated far to clearly to be convincing. The stereotypes were all there, and the conclusion required a tremendous suspension of disbelief, though the epilogue brought everything very much back down to earth in rather a depressing manner.
However, overall it wasn't a bad film, and I experienced an actual physical jolt of nostalgia when they did the Oxford colleges montage.
Very much a play put onto the screen, the dialogue was often stilted and unrealistic, though certainly not badly written, and most of the actors enunciated far to clearly to be convincing. The stereotypes were all there, and the conclusion required a tremendous suspension of disbelief, though the epilogue brought everything very much back down to earth in rather a depressing manner.
However, overall it wasn't a bad film, and I experienced an actual physical jolt of nostalgia when they did the Oxford colleges montage.
