Two first-year students at Oxford University join a secret society and learn that their reputations can be made or destroyed over the course of one evening.
The dinner and its all-too-predictable outcome consume much of the film, with the riotous diners blurring into one horrid mass like the piggies at the end of George Orwell’s Animal Farm.
Many films have sought to explore and uncover the wealth divide at the heart of British life, from If…. (1968) to The Riot Club (2014), with each dissecting the inherited power and privilege at the heart of the British state.