(Post 9) I've watched a new film

I watched The Riot Club, which was based on the Bullingdon Club, an exclusive and elitist all male club made up of the richest and most well connected students  at Oxford. The Riot Club is an elaborate and exaggerated depiction of the events of the Bullingdon club, which shows the members a really bad light. The members are pompous, entitled, glutinous, snobbish, sexist and ultimately aggressive. It’s a simple plot line that shows members being chosen and then goes on to show them getting out of hand during a pre-planned evening meal. The night ends with them causing GBH to the pub landlord where they are eating. It then shows how the group are willing to sacrifice one of their members in order to protect themselves. The film shows the arrogance of the wealthy establishment and the cracks that appear in their loyalty when their futures are threatened by the consequences of their actions. 

I liked watching the film because I feel like it gave me a glimpse of a world that I don’t belong in (nor would I want to). It seemed realistic and showed something that could be viewed as quite glamorous, as actually quite horrible. I didn’t like the violence in the film, although the contrast between the affluent setting of an Oxford college and the violent scenes was very effective. The movie had a different nature to our initial idea for a music video and therefore there is little I could take from it for our own work. However I really like how much attention to detail had been paid throughout the film, from the costumes to the settings, which I think played a big role in making the whole movie so successful. This is a key element which we need to ensure we also achieve in our music video.