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I loved the film. Because I loved the characters.
Did not like the ending.
Did not like the alternate ending.
I feel that if they were ever going to make love, it would have been off-campus, at Simone’s beach house.
Both characters were too bright to get busted like that.
They would have been too smart to sleep together in the Dorm.
I do not believe that the head mistress of the school would call the police so quickly, and bring scandal on her High Class Boarding School, scandal comes from the outside, not from the inside. Parents would be pulling their children out of that school so fast it would make your head swim. That situation would have been handled quietly and diplomatically. A Boarding School is a business. There would have been no arrests. In my humble opinion.
If the parent discovers something is going on, then you might get the arrest, and charges. But if it is discovered from the inside, teachers and students are moved around and or transferred, and everything is kept quiet, because you don’t want to be sued.
I sit and watch this movie, care about the characters, and then in the end the Writer/Director drags Simon off to jail like a common criminal, like someone who was caught exposing herself in public. That makes me feel bummed out. Nobody likes to have that feeling at the end of a movie. It also makes me feel as if the Writer did not care for Simone’s character. Did the writer feel that this is what Simone deserved, to be arrested in public, and humiliated.