![]() That said, give me a budget and Jodie Comer in Liverpool and I would relish a remake. Walters and Caine could have quite easily filmed this in the one room without any other participants and I would have been just as enchanted. I’m only gutted I’ve never thought to seek this film out before today. Can’t help but feel thrown off by not recognising any of the locations. It’s really frustrating to know that the source material places it there, but due to bloody politics (Tories again, the bastards), production was moved to Ireland. Where the fuck is it set? It ain’t Liverpool.It’s a shame really because it doesn’t match the tone of the movie and even goes so far as to make it feel like a TV movie. It seems more like music heard in BBCs Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (1981) or A Clockwork Orange (1971). The synthesiser music seems to clash with the story being told.It’s often rather shit and a battle to challenge. However, the reveal opens up and and its certainly something that transcends class the opinion we have of ones self. I certainly did when she opened with the music and poetry she has been set up as rather pretentious. ![]() You see, darling, the rest of the time it’s just me. It was the final line in their interaction that struck home for me “When I listen to poetry and music, then I can live. While it was very well handled and approached, I found it difficult to watch for the reality of it and the candour in which Maureen Lipman’s Trish speaks about her sadness that she hadn’t succeeded. For me, the suicide attempt of the friend came out of left field.However, in this we see her evolve the character and bring Susan/Rita from a state of turmoil and wanting to discover herself, to being an independent and confident woman who at least knows who she is in the moment. Anyone who has seen her in anything, will know that she is a chameleon. Julie Walter’s in this film is incredible. Not only that, but for me, it played almost like I was watching what could have been my mother’s life. So to have her in a film playing a Scouser, making those ‘ays’ and ‘tarras’, was a bittersweet dream for me. Now, I’ve always been a bit bias when it comes to Julie Walters she reminds me of my mum.More so than My Fair Ladys Professor Higgins. So to see the character of Frank come alive at the prospect of educating Rita… or rather Rita educating him, it allows you to invest in the character. The alcoholism is a difficult thing to portray on film and its something that can suck the humanity out of even the best of people. There’s not many men who could bring the charm that he did to the role and it makes the difference. ![]() Bloody hell, I loved and loathed the character in equal measure. There’s no point in the film where I thought “Ah, that’s where the interval would be.” Something that can be rather obvious if a play is not well adapted. The creative team have added players and places in order to expand the story from the two person play Russell wrote.
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