剧情介绍
影片揭露三十年代爱尔兰一间男童院的阴暗面。男主角富有改革社会的理想，相信诗歌可改变人心。他刚打完西班牙内战回来，在男童院当教师，即跟暴戾成性的院长神父发生冲突。这些每因小过而被关进来的少年，在院长眼中只是畜牲，但整个教会和国家均对神父的暴力和性侵犯视而不见。
In 1939 William Franklin, an anti-Franco veteran of the bloody Spanish Civil War, arrives as first-ever lay teacher in a strict Catholic Reformatory and Industrial School for wayward boys. He soon learns the academic challenge is formidable, many boys being still illiterate, but gradually earns their trust, respect, in time almost devotion, with 'paternal' kindness, making the layman the opposite of the cruel prefect, brother John, who frequently administers painful and humiliating punishments, even the gentle, old superior Father Damian has no authority against his disciplinary mandate from the grim bishop Conlon. Slowly even class rebel Liam Mercier is turned around, trough his gift for literature. After Franklin dares stop the sadist's penny-weighted strap severely striking 'sinful scum' for a futility, the whole dorm is treated to an icy night outdoors, arms outstretched wearing only shorts. Brother Mac's mind may mean to educate well, his flesh is too weak for celibacy, so the coy, pretty new boy becomes his latest pederastic lust-object, sworn to suffer sodomy in silence- even devoutly confessing to Father O'Driscoll his fear to have lost his innocence during painful rape costs him an endless cold shower, shivering stark-naked before his tormentor. Constructing a nativity stall for the village church allows Franklin's class to grow close, have fun and earn praise, but after the Peters brothers cross the forbidden red lines to hug each-other on Christmas night across the wall separating the age sections, John punishes their 'blasphemous abomination' (?!) by publicly flogging their bare backs to bloody pulp till Franklin arrives. Still the prefect is capable of viler abuse: Liam, who sent a boy to get Franklin and received a book with dedication from that 'communist', privately gets the sturdy strap in the face till even secret-blackmailed brother Mac can't watch the orgy of child-abuse any more, but now Franklin arrives so late...
有爱尔兰口音
好虐，看到结尾的字幕尤其心痛，影片竟然是真人真事改编的，演Mercier的那个男孩子长得好精致，可惜长大后参与的电影目前还没有能超越这部的~
曼斯一定喜欢老师(╯̣̣̣̣̣̣̣̣̣̣ᆺ╰̣̣̣̣̣̣̣̣̣̣๑)
我操你吗的
3.5
很现实，很残酷......男主角又是《怦然心动》里朱莉的爸爸
虐死我了……
爱尔兰是个很压抑的地方 任何形式的改革 都会有牺牲去换取 世界的阴暗和美好是一样多的，所以你不要忘记任何一样
心里想着编剧你别下毒手！没过一会儿那美少年就挂了%>_<%
。难受
本来以为是变态的血腥片，没想到其实是部温情片，只不过加了虐待狂的反派BOSS和一个同性癖的废材手下而已，最后皆大欢喜，柏林墙被拆除，西班牙内战回来的主角抛开过去的束缚，和一群男童院被感化的少年在一起HE了....可惜打BOSS牺牲了一个男二...
诗歌。
乱煽情
既像死亡诗社，又像放牛班的春天，只是过程太残忍太压抑，黑暗面表现得过于强烈，以至于最后孩子们与franklin先生围在一起的欢笑也令人哀伤。
正太控，没办法