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How to Cheat in the Leaving Certificate (1997)
Ireland at a crossroads
19 March 2020
The film captures the many contradictions of Irish culture during the 1990s; the institutional doctrine buttressing capitalism, youth idealism listlessly adrift from organised counter-culture, and a middle class now finally assured of its privilege.
The concoction pits the film's motley protagonists against - ostensibly - the state education system, but as their folly unfolds we are called to question how the life-limiting assumptions made about them have little to do with the titular exam.
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