A review by likecymbeline
The History Boys by Alan Bennett

5.0

So I'd seen the film a dozen times but already knew the chief differences between play and film (the downer ending of the play, in particular), so I was spared some degree of devastation at the two being different. The ending confuses me, really, because till this point I'd sort of conflated Bennett and Posner which might've been wrong of me to do, but Posner's fate, while it has a very British pessimistic realism to it, is not what I should hope Bennett feels his own fate is. It is a bit Hollywood to want to see the success of the underdog and to act as if a person who suffered deserves the happiest ending, but really, Bennett? I'd just like Posner to feel satisfied with his own life, that's all really!