So the Headmaster, a former student of Hunman’s, took pity on Hunman and hired him as Adjunct Teacher. Wait, hold up there’s time warp in there somewhere. Hunman was already a teacher when the headmaster was still a student. So, who hired Hunman?
shareGood point ... could it have been a different headmaster who hired him?
Why did they call it "The Holdovers" when it was really just one holdover. This movie got a lot of attention and I liked the portrayal of the time period, but why make everyone dishonest and dysfunctional? I ended up not liking it.
Yes, I think you’re right. It must’ve been a previous headmaster, but he also seemed a bit beholden to the current one. At least at the start of the movie.
I liked the film, and it’s quirkyness. I guess the title refers to the original group, and doesn’t want to spoil the helicopter scene. That was a classic rich kids scene. Go to any airport near an ivy league college on opening or closing days, and you’ll see a fleet of private jets. Parents picking up their nepo babies.
It seems clear that the current headmaster who let him go knew of his situation.
The world as portrayed in this movie felt honest to me who lived through this era and I liked it for that, however the kids were over the top - even elite kids of the day had not learned the inhumanity and nastiness that they have today.
You look at these super-rich people who have children just to have children, or even worse are the ones who adopt them for servants like Mia Farrow and they are distilled from a long line of elites who farm out the care of their kids and make them compete for attention, and they turn out like complete psychopaths. I'm convinced this is what drives the Republican party, the similarities between W. Bush and Trump are kind of amazing, with Trump being even worse than W. and his extended family.
If we cannot understand this and unseat these people from power we will soon be not very different from Russia or China.