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Harry Hook's adaptation is not as faithful to the William Golding novel as you'd wish (they excised the "Lord of the Flies" dialogue with Simon!) and because of it, the movie is less allegorical and less resonant. A group of young men from a military academy are stranded on an island. The group quickly becomes fractious with a passive section led by Ralph, trying to get rescued, and a hunter faction, led by Jack, trying to procure meat and "have fun." Peter Brook's 1963 filming seemed to get closer to the Darwinist sense of this cultural disintegration. Here, the hunter faction seems more like Peter Pan's Lost Boys than the bloodthirsty murderers they are. The performances, particularly young Getty, don't quite carry the weight of the situation. It's still, however, sobering to slowly watch the school uniforms traded for war paint, and the little boys turn into little savages. --Keith Simanton
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79 of 89 people found the following review helpful
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I have taught this novel for 8 years. This film's glaring error is to ignore and often to reverse the harrowing moral message of the original novel.
The original locates the capacity for evil within all of us and portrays civilization as a fragile surface beneath which lurks 'the darkness of man's heart'. Golding chose public schoolboys to be isolated on his island so the very 'pinnacle' of innocence and civilization was subverted when they turned to murder, sacrifice, and idolatry.
In this disastrous adaptation, there is a simplistic divide of the boys into 'good guys' who remain untainted by evil and 'bad guys' Moreover, the boys start as military cadets; when they turn to hunting it hardly surprises us. Jack, instead of changing from Head Chorister to The Chief of a tribe of savages, starts off as a delinquent and becomes...a delinquent. The character development is therefore omitted. The moral message becomes a conservative reinforcement of a good/evil division between people.
Golding would be mortified by this travesty of a film.
10 of 11 people found the following review helpful
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The other reviews say it all.Buy the orignal Peter Brook film which is faithful to the book. In fact seeing it acted out in the original film is even more chilling.
This is a shallow travesty which you should not waste your money on.
This is a shallow travesty which you should not waste your money on.
10 of 11 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
I really enjoyed the book, but I can't recall many fine details of the plot which some people argue the film doesn't abide by. However, when I first watched this film the book was still fresh in my mind. I don't think this version of the film is as bad as other people make out. I thought the child actors were some of the best I've ever seen, and they made this film as brutal and shocking as the book was. The killing scenes are particularly gripping; I remember being quite alarmed in parts, and I'm not normally disturbed by things like that. In short, I think it's well worth a watch.
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