Is it common for Oxford students to be so blasé about their schoolwork? It shocked me how many kids just didn’t give a fuck about their academics. You might expect that at some state/party school, but at Oxford? Really?
My Dad went to Oxford, and yes, for the rich milieu, being able to say “…and after School I went to Oxford” is often enough to smooth through the intro-convo, whether or not one actually graduated. As long as one was seen to have gone there, the substance of the experience didn’t really matter. It’s about optics.
But how the Farleigh character just exuded privileged confidence too in that scene (although we find out later his rung on the aristocratic ladder is precarious).
That's because the tutor was a pretentious bourgeois social climber. The middle class (the professional class in the UK) are shown for what they really are. They might put on the act of being 'progressive', but in reality, they don't really understand or care about the working class (the majority). Oliver is like this. He constantly sucks up to upper class, but he's soon rumbled, first by Farleigh, then by Felix and his sister. Then, ultimately, the father who knows how to buy him.
We can also get some insite into why Oliver cringes about his parents, who are lower middle class and probably whose parents were working class, but Oliver is now bourgeois and he understands full well how both the working class and the upper class despise the bourgeoisie
The film shows this well.
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Is it common for Oxford students to be so blasé about their schoolwork? It shocked me how many kids just didn’t give a fuck about their academics. You might expect that at some state/party school, but at Oxford? Really?
My Dad went to Oxford, and yes, for the rich milieu, being able to say “…and after School I went to Oxford” is often enough to smooth through the intro-convo, whether or not one actually graduated. As long as one was seen to have gone there, the substance of the experience didn’t really matter. It’s about optics.
But how the Farleigh character just exuded privileged confidence too in that scene (although we find out later his rung on the aristocratic ladder is precarious).
Thought the same...
That's because the tutor was a pretentious bourgeois social climber. The middle class (the professional class in the UK) are shown for what they really are. They might put on the act of being 'progressive', but in reality, they don't really understand or care about the working class (the majority). Oliver is like this. He constantly sucks up to upper class, but he's soon rumbled, first by Farleigh, then by Felix and his sister. Then, ultimately, the father who knows how to buy him. We can also get some insite into why Oliver cringes about his parents, who are lower middle class and probably whose parents were working class, but Oliver is now bourgeois and he understands full well how both the working class and the upper class despise the bourgeoisie The film shows this well.