 CONT: At the beginning of the film, Jim Carroll is being brutally  beaten with a cricket paddle on the buttocks by one of his teachers.  The amount of strokes he gets are enough to cause severe bruising or  at least serious redness of the skin, yet minutes or hours later,  when Jim and the boys are mooning a public ferry from a cliff, not  one single bruised or red bottom is to be seen in the row of nude  boys. This is inconsistent with Carrolls own words in his book.