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Post by roverpup on Oct 12, 2017 22:36:45 GMT
I am not sure i am understanding you correctly. What parts did I say I didn’t like? :-))
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Post by sgev1977 on Oct 12, 2017 22:40:16 GMT
I’m not answering to you! It’s just that I’m slow!
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Post by mllemass on Oct 12, 2017 23:29:22 GMT
I haven't read the book. But if you listen to the recording of the panel discussion from the preview screening, they speak about the challenge they faced in creating the same mood and tone of the novel. That was their main goal, and I think they were very successful.
I wish I could watch it again! I managed to watch it 3 times before I was blocked out by the BBC a week later.
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Post by MagdaFR on Oct 23, 2017 1:35:42 GMT
I wish I could watch it again! I managed to watch it 3 times before I was blocked out by the BBC a week later. I watched it today without any problem with the BBC and without interruptions (by my laptop). Sometimes cleaning coockies and cache helps. I really liked it and I don't understand some of the criticism. I didn't read the book so I can't comment on the adaptation but I don't think it was necessary to have read the book to understand the movie. On the lack of fluidity, it is exactly the opposite for me: it is all flowing, past and present, Julie and Stephen's reactions to the loss. I think it was very beautifully done. Stephen was not calmly eating with friends at the restaurant, he was still desolated and broken, done beautifully by BC. After this scene is when he holds Kate's hand and says "tight hold". The Charles story didn't bother me. You may be overwhelmed by grief and denial but life has a way of getting in the middle and you continue doing things, maybe like a zombie, like participating on a committee, visiting with family and friends, going on dates. So if Charles' story was just something happening on Stephen's life and it wasn't related to the theme I'd just accept it. But I think that though a little bizarre it was related. The only things I didn't like were *Stephen's clothes: in the first two minutes Stephen uses i) the outfit at the supermarket, ii) after the titles he's using a blue shirt when he's writing on the laptop, iii) a gray one when he's washing his teeth to go meet Charles and Thelma, iv) a different outfit and a backpack when he leaves his house which are the same he uses afterwards when he goes visit Julie, v) again the gray one when he comes out from the metro and at the pub. Sometimes it looks like he's using always the same trouser (which by the way looks pretty good on him) and same clothes in the past and present times. It doesn't help with the timeline. Anyway, after a while I didn't pay attention to the clothes anymore. *The government arc wasn't necessary, it didn't contribute to the story, imo. *The images of Charles after Stephen's speech. That is, it is logical to think that Stephen would think of him but as the "man child"? It was kind of a hommage to Charles and I think the character was too secondary to deserve it. I'm not one to cry on movies but I almost did at the end when Stephen runs to meet Julie at the hospital, meets Kate and holds her hand as in the begining but now he's almost smiling. I liked the ending very much. Maybe there were things missing and others explained (Stephen's mother, Julie telling it is a brother) but I think it was a solid movie and BC and Kelly MacDonald were excellent.
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Post by mllemass on Oct 23, 2017 3:24:16 GMT
I'll give it another try tomorrow! When it worked, it worked really well, with no interruptions, and I had it on for hours at a time. But it didn't seem to "stick" because once I closed it, it was gone and I had to re-install it to watch it again. I checked the troubleshooting, and they say it's because it hadn't installed properly the first time, and to do it all over again. So that's what I was doing until that didn't work anymore, either.
I'm glad you liked TCIT! I do cry at movies, and I found myself crying more each time I watched it, probably because I knew what was coming. The last time I watched it, every scene with him and Kate turned me into a sobbing wreck.
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Post by MagdaFR on Oct 23, 2017 9:11:40 GMT
It is only on BBC iplayer till Tuesday.
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Post by mllemass on Oct 23, 2017 19:26:49 GMT
It worked again, so I'm just watching it now! Thanks for the reminder!
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Post by sgev1977 on Oct 23, 2017 23:11:51 GMT
I agreed with your comments, Magda.
I feel it was very realistic in the way it presented grief. Even the “surreal” elements feel “real” in the sense that you really tend to feel lost in space and time. They captured those confusing feelings of trying to live your normal life meanwhile losing all sense of normalcy.
I think they did something non conventional and personally I think it’s very promising. It is a little movie which it’s not perfect but it showed ambition and I’m very happy with the result.
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