This film is a nice film, well done, entertaining, but it shows a wrong image about Belgian student "folklore".
This film shows a student club where freshmen are mistreated. The baptism is shown as an event at which freshmen have to drink too much beer and then are placed in dangerous situations.
This is not the spirit of student folklore. Normally at baptisms freshmen don't drink any beer, or just a little bit. Sometimes, just at the end of the event there is a drinking contest, but that is when all is over, and it is voluntary.
At the end of the film !!!SPOILER!!! the message of the film is that it is okay to kill the leader of the student club. Really a ridiculous message.
I really respect the director very much. His latest film: "De zaak Alzheimer" is a wonderful film, but about this film I can only say it damaged the reputation of student folklore, without any grounded reasons.
This film shows a student club where freshmen are mistreated. The baptism is shown as an event at which freshmen have to drink too much beer and then are placed in dangerous situations.
This is not the spirit of student folklore. Normally at baptisms freshmen don't drink any beer, or just a little bit. Sometimes, just at the end of the event there is a drinking contest, but that is when all is over, and it is voluntary.
At the end of the film !!!SPOILER!!! the message of the film is that it is okay to kill the leader of the student club. Really a ridiculous message.
I really respect the director very much. His latest film: "De zaak Alzheimer" is a wonderful film, but about this film I can only say it damaged the reputation of student folklore, without any grounded reasons.