Edited sentence: But the overall theme of the movie can best be summarized as, child molestation is a postive experience for everyone.I think most viewers will be surprised at how the movie suggests it’s somehow a bad thing for the headmaster to come in and demand the resignation of the groping schoolteacher.It is problematic, however, that watching this movie one gets the impression that all intelligent male British schoolteachers were homosexual, a good number of the students are gay, and that the natural reaction by students (gay and straight alike) to being groped by their schoolteacher of four years is to crack jokes as you submit to the groping as long as it gets you to Cambridge or Oxford.It was interesting to see the ‘coming of age’ aspect of the movie as the students each struggle with their notions of what an education is and should be.It’s even more surprising, and disturbing, that somehow the other teachers at the school are more sympathetic to the pederast than concerned that their prize students have been sexually assaulted for four years now.Outside of this BIG issue of the film’s approval of sexual assault on students by teachers (as long as the teacher is cool), there are some really great scenes and the acting is pretty sharp, though the ending of the film is an odd mess.Perhaps the most disturbing aspect of the film concerns the permisive nod the film makes towards pedophelia and relationships between teachers and students.The mother of all surprises is that the teacher’s students (victims) are portrayed as being sad to see him go and even work to block his being fired.The overarching story concerns the “oxbridge” aspirations of a group of gifted young British schoolboys in the 80’s in their final term before college.The parents of the students are barely seen or mentioned.The rationalization of pedophilia, and teachers preying on students is disturbing.There is also a small amount of time spent on history and creative writing.This movie’s summary makes no mention of the fact that a strong theme in this film is teacher-student homosexual relationships