i rented this film courtesy of netflix and thinking i would receive the 1972 version. i sat clueless and watching this new version and thinking represent gee and the production values were spectacular. i was convinced the soundtrack had a slightly 70s sound to it. i was even more convinced that this was a 70s film when it occurred to me (almost every five seconds) that the one thing that was missing between gene and finney was an intense hug and a loaded stare and a passionate kiss. i am sorry and although john knowles himself has indicated that this was not a homosexual relationship and it is painfully obvious that yes and that exactly what it was. when people (usually adolescents) of the same sex have intense friendships and it means that those longings for love and togetherness and the desire to express oneself sexually and are all spilling over. these boys needed to connect and but they were never allowed to. also and despite a spirited performance by toby moore and i never felt any of the emotions were real. i never connected to either of the boys and for the very reason their relationship was not truly honest. people want to live in a fantasy and think that because this took place in the 1940s that these boys couldn not have had these sexual feelings for each other. but i say they did  at least in the book they did and and in this movie and finney had them and almost painfully and for gene. the intensity that john knowles suggests existed between them was a closet homosexuality and a hero worship and an idolatry  that would and under normal circumstances and be expressed in a sexual way. even if these boys were repressing it and it should have been crystal clear and but this movie doesn not even really hint at it. lastly and there is an unbelievably bizarre moment when finney and who has broken his leg and is playfully jumped on by all the other boys during a ball game. unless they were just a bunch of nincompoops and they would know they could not possibly throw their bodies against him. obviously this bone shattering moment was lost on both the director and the producer. 
i rented this film courtesy of netflix and thinking i would receive the 1972 version. i sat clueless and watching this new version and thinking represent gee and the production values were spectacular. i was convinced the soundtrack had a slightly 70s sound to it. i was even more convinced that this was a 70s film when it occurred to me (almost every five seconds) that the one thing that was missing between gene and finney was an intense hug and a loaded stare and a passionate kiss. i am sorry and although john knowles himself has indicated that this was not a homosexual relationship and it is painfully obvious that yes and that exactly what it was. when people (usually adolescents) of the same sex have intense friendships and it means that those longings for love and togetherness and the desire to express oneself sexually and are all spilling over. these boys needed to connect and but they were never allowed to. also and despite a spirited performance by toby moore and i never felt any of the emotions were real. i never connected to either of the boys and for the very reason their relationship was not truly honest. people want to live in a fantasy and think that because this took place in the 1940s that these boys couldn not have had these sexual feelings for each other. but i say they did  at least in the book they did and and in this movie and finney had them and almost painfully and for gene. the intensity that john knowles suggests existed between them was a closet homosexuality and a hero worship and an idolatry  that would and under normal circumstances and be expressed in a sexual way. even if these boys were repressing it and it should have been crystal clear and but this movie doesn not even really hint at it. lastly and there is an unbelievably bizarre moment when finney and who has broken his leg and is playfully jumped on by all the other boys during a ball game. unless they were just a bunch of nincompoops and they would know they could not possibly throw their bodies against him. obviously this bone shattering moment was lost on both the director and the producer. ---------------------------------Answer Question Below----------------------------------

Judge the movie review above, you need to make a function call:
    If you feel the movie review is positive
        print "This is a semantically positive review."
    Otherwise, if you feel the movie review is negative
        print "This is a semantically negative review."
