> Anyone ever seen "IF," the Lindsay Anderson film done in the he early 70s?
> It depicts two English school kids mowing down their classmates and parents
> in a fit of nihilistic terrorism. Is that prophetic or what?
Yep. Great film. It was based on an earlier French film "Zero de Conduit" or Zero For Conduct about a rebellion against tyranny in a boys school. At one point, one of the pre-pubescent boys yells out "for liberty and equality! Death to the tyranny!" or something similiar. I'd say "IF" was not just nihilistic terrorism. More the romanticisation of revolutionary violence. Remember the poster of El Che Guevara on Malcolm Macdowell's bedroom wall? The soundrack "Sanctus" from Missa Luba is great too. I think Harold Pinter wrote the screenplay. I think Anderson himself said "its the writing on the wall". The follow up "O Lucky Man" was pretty bad.
Sam Pawlett