Lord of the Flies

Lord of the Flies

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Lord of the Flies

Andrew Taft, Badgett Dale, Balthazar Getty, Bob Peck, Chris Furrh, Danuel Pipoly, Edward Taft

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 ...( read more  read more... )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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  • July 16, 2009
    the original is alot better but there were a few changes i liked better.
  • August 3, 2008
    Nothing special to be seen here. An okay adaption of the novel, I suppose, if a little liberal. A decent way to waste time, but nothing more.
  • April 29, 2008
    brilliant, what more needs to be said, still holds up to this day
  • October 18, 2007
    The book makes this movie shame. Shame on the bottom of shoes.
  • October 10, 2007
    Piggy died oh no.
  • November 3, 2009
    I actually enjoyed this movie a lot more than I'd expected.
    Despite the fact that it was all filmed on the exact same place and that not much happened I still found it really engaging and exciting.
    It keeps you hooked to the screen and it's impossible to look away from it!
  • October 31, 2009
    !Comercial or Stupid! :|
  • October 14, 2009
    Hard to wach

    Recuerdo que la escena de la piedra me traumo senti que habia presenciado un asesinato en carne propia
  • August 16, 2009
    I have never watched the film but im rating it purely on having studied the novel itself. Golding touhes upon many key issues and uses numerous symbolic references throughout e.g. the conch, the pigs head. The novel as many themses and issues of authority and civilisation running...( read more) through it.... and is a great read (watch).
  • August 15, 2009
    Bleh, just bleh. I loved reading the book in high school and wouldn't mind owning that one day, but this movie I never plan to own.

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