{"id":3778,"date":"2015-04-17T05:45:01","date_gmt":"2015-04-17T12:45:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/?p=3778"},"modified":"2015-04-20T05:42:54","modified_gmt":"2015-04-20T12:42:54","slug":"review-the-riot-club","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/?p=3778","title":{"rendered":"Review: THE RIOT CLUB"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/?attachment_id=3780\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3780\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Screen-Shot-2015-04-17-at-8.41.13-AM-200x300.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"Screen Shot 2015-04-17 at 8.41.13 AM\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-3780\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Screen-Shot-2015-04-17-at-8.41.13-AM-200x300.png 200w, https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Screen-Shot-2015-04-17-at-8.41.13-AM-201x300.png 201w, https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Screen-Shot-2015-04-17-at-8.41.13-AM.png 384w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/?attachment_id=3445\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3445\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/fixbutton2.gif\" alt=\"\" title=\"fixbutton\" width=\"100\" height=\"112\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-3445\" \/><\/a>Director Lone Scherfig&#8217;s \u201cThe Riot Club\u201d is a difficult take on the bad behavior of a group of privileged Oxford University students.  It is a film that is bound to draw comparisons to Mary Harron\u2019s 2000 adaptation of Bret Easton Ellis\u2019 \u201cAmerican Psycho.\u201d  While \u201cThe Riot Club\u201d is a bit more grounded and less fantastical, both films feature dangerous rich young men who seem to lack a moral rudder.  And like Harron\u2019s film, it seems that it takes a women director, like Scherfig (who also directed the Oscar nominated \u201cAn Education\u201d) to expose the nasty side of the arrogant wealthy male.<\/p>\n<p>In \u201cThe Riot Club,\u201d we meet Alistair Ryle (\u201cThe Hunger Games\u2019\u201d Sam Claflin) as he checks into Oxford University.  His parents are angry that he does not want to take his older brother\u2019s grand dorm room.  But a fellow classmate, Miles Richards (Max Irons) switches with him much to Alistair\u2019s disgust.  He just doesn\u2019t want to be like his perfect brother.  In time, Alistair and Miles will become members of a very exclusive club\u2014the Riot Club.  And their lives will never be the same.<\/p>\n<p>The Riot Club, we learn in an amusing opening sequence, has its roots in Oxford\u2019s past and requires the members to eat, drink, and be merry to excess.  Encouraging extreme behavior is particularly dangerous when one of the new members may be a psychopath with a particular agenda.  The film is essentially one big party gone horribly wrong.  And the events are tough to watch with lots of vulgarity.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Riot Club\u201d will divide viewers\u2014some will find it in bad taste.  But there is a twisted moral on display.  If you are rich, and you do irresponsible things, you will eventually pay a high price.  But there are shades of grey that money and privilege can provide, even if the wrongness is without question.  And that conflict leaves the viewer cold.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This vulgar examination of &#8220;posh&#8221; Oxford students is worth a look.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3779,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-reviews","has-thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3778","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3778"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3778\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3784,"href":"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3778\/revisions\/3784"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}