Movie: Fighting Back
Fighting Back is an Australian movie from 1982
following the life of Tom, a thirteen-year-old boy. He is in conflict both at
home and at school.
According to a review on the Ozmovies website,
“At school Tom is at war with a school culture which celebrates the power of
corporal punishment - Truscott is one teacher who boasts of giving thirty
students three lashes each, claiming they were all the better for the
experience.
“When new remedial teacher John Embling turns up, he
meets sympathetic but struggling fellow specialist teacher Mary but the real
tone is set by Truscott who, in front of other teachers in the staff room,
offers Embling his much-used leather belt.
“Tom’s English teacher is helpless in the face of Tom’s
defiance, while older teacher Moreland has given up on difficult cases, and
settled for the quiet life within the school system.
“Embling declines to join the school’s corporal
punishment culture, but when Tom fails a test and embarks on a rampage and runs
away from school, it’s left to another strap-wielding teacher, Mr. Payne to
bring him to heel by giving him the feel of leather on the palm of the hand.
“That sets Tom off on another bout of defiance, as he
wrecks a locker room.”
Fighting Back (not to be confused with the US
vigilante movies of the same name and issued in the same year) is available on
DVD but is hard to find. It is also on the Internet
Archives.
Picture and video credit: Umbrella Entertainment.
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