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white_hart) wrote2016-04-02 08:28 pm
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So terribly heppy
The current programme on Radio 4 (which appears to be about optimism and the reverse) just featured a film historian who appeared to think that the ending of Brief Encounter was utterly downbeat.
Personally, I have always thought that if she'd run off with Trevor Howard they'd only have ended up bickering after six months and hating the sight of each other after a year, and that going back to the kind if slightly dull husband was the right decision. This probably says a lot about me. And, indeed, about the film historian who clearly felt she should have run off with Trevor Howard.
Personally, I have always thought that if she'd run off with Trevor Howard they'd only have ended up bickering after six months and hating the sight of each other after a year, and that going back to the kind if slightly dull husband was the right decision. This probably says a lot about me. And, indeed, about the film historian who clearly felt she should have run off with Trevor Howard.
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I think maybe people are misled because it has the reputation of being terribly romantic, whereas actually it's quite anti-romantic; in the end the message is that it's better to work at what you have than follow a wild dream.
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I was lucky enough to see the Penelope Wilton production as part of my compulsory course on my Erasmus exchange in 1992-3.
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*I saw a reading of the original play script with Harriet Walter and Alec Jennings, which gave a strong impression that Laura was simply the latest in a string of women that he had pulled this schtick on.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajC4Az4wscc
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