'If ...'

I was interested in this film because it starred Malcolm McDowell. It is his first role. He was 25 playing a teenager. Still, he pulled it off.

He'd take on a role three years later as a juvenile in Stanley Kubrick's overtly brilliant A Clockwork Orange as the randy Alex.

He would bring back his character of Mick Travis in the films O Lucky Man! and Britannia Hospital.

Boarding schools are interesting. You would literally ship your kid off to college: They live on campus, sleep in a dorm and are practically raised by teachers and headmasters and prefects and whatnot.

I always dreamed about going to a boarding school. Now, it just interests me that parents would rather just pay a hefty sum to not have to see their kids, which is what boarding schools are really about. Parents might say that they offer some edge in education, and in Europe this might be the case.

All I know is that anyone that has a kid in the United States, somewhere along the way, gets some pressure to quit one's job and raise the kid at home. Shipping them off to Switzerland or England is completely out of the question. See, things aren't so bad now.

Why people have children is a total mystery.