The Riot Club (2014)
Directed by Lone
Scherfig this film based on the play “Posh” stars Sam Claflin,
Max Irons, Douglas Booth and Holliday Grainger. Two upper class young
men start degrees at Oxford University and join a club famous for
it's debauched dining events.
This is a thinly
veiled look at the real life Bullingdon Club and an even more thinly
veiled suggestion that rich people, the Tories in particular, just
hate poor people. About as hateful as some of the characters it
depicts the script never shows what our more sympathetic protagonist
sees in the club or offers any kind of insights. While this is not a
badly made film it's just hard to find any enjoyment in it's subject
matter.
2/5
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