Originally Posted By: David Hamilton
Well Jack, I guess that you will have to tell us the point of "The Shooting Party" because many of us enjoyed the movie with-out looking down on the Edwardians.
David


"The Shooting Party" was quite clear in presenting the Edwardian upper class as frivolous and irrelevant, and their games as murderous and thoughtless. As Sir Randolph Nettleby (James Mason) observes, "If you take away the proper function of the aristocracy, there's nothing left for us but playing games too seriously."

But it's not surprising that some in this forum would be so entertained by the slaughter of poultry that they'd miss the underlying message of social decay.

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