pixrox1 Review of Boys Beware

Boys Beware (1962)

It's easy to rant and rave along the front lines of moral relativism, but . . .

[5/10 · 5 May 2018]

. . . exactly who can claim to hold the Universe's final score card on anything? Papal bulls come and go, and what's merely venal one year becomes mortal the next. It's the same thing with DSM's or anything else. When you're on the wrong side of the political fence while suited up for a National Football League game during the playing of the "Star-Spangled Stripes," "Stars and Bars," "Striped Stars Forever," or whatever that ditty is called (infamous centuries ago as a tavern song that only the REALLY drunk would even attempt to sing!), the worm may turn a decade or two later, but can you really throw the "Hail Mary" again? "Tom Wolfe" thinks not. BOYS BEWARE is NOT receiving a lot of love Today. However, all of these pompous pontificators who make claims about the "Eternal Nature" of "Settled Law" apparently are unaware that astrologists have figured out the exact second at which the sun will expand, burning Earth to a crisp just before absorbing it like a tiny cinder in your shoe. Persuasions come and go, as LITTLE BIG MAN viewers well know. Which "D. Hoffman" will posterity revere, and which will go down in BOYS BEWARE infamy? Whether or not you think Kevin Spaced Out would be a better space filler in the previous sentence, who's to say whether "Oscar Wilde" or Whatever Turling got off light?