A movie about first love and first sex, as well as being a good example of why the UK’s education system has so systematically failed to meet the needs of a modern nation state.
This is charming, funny and well-written in that it gets the playground sensibility of the lies, misunderstandings and downright ignorance about sex. The boys here rely, instead, on a fantasy world that helps solace them their shyness, an obsession with cricket and/or an invented gang language.
Ultimately, the psychological insights eventually come to resemble a Peanuts comic strip. The 14 year olds start talking like adults reminiscing about when they were 14, rather than the actual statements children that old would actually say to one another. Nevertheless, no one said it was stylistically realistic, I suppose?
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