caoimhín o'cuilleainSo l had been itching for a new dramatic treatment of Lord of the Flies recently without knowing BBC produced one and it had already shown in Britain. Netflix has it and I'm 3/4 through and... be careful what you wish for. It's excellent, the young actors are wonderful and it’s filmed with beauty and terror in equal measures. But it just reminded me how sad the book is and depressing to see a tiny society devolve to ruthlessness as my own large society does the same. 😕 #tv #television #netflix
Larry Anderson 🕊️@kevbob I had to read the book when I was in high school, in 10th grade. I hated it. As a nerdy kid who was bullied, it was practically an act of abuse to be forced to read a literary depiction of the kind of people who made my life hell. William Golding can suck it.
@larand fair assessment! Also a bullied kid but mostly periods during elementary and middle school. By the time I first read it in high school that was over, mostly just ignored til 11th & 12th grade. I was into survival fiction and that scratched my itch. Golding wrote it as the anti-novel to a similar book of marooned child survival from 90y previous that was a celebration of colonialism and stratification of British society. Thru the lens of recently concluded WWII, it is vicious.
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