Tuesday 30 August 2022

Although It Was A Bank Holiday,

Diana had to go into work,

and it was no holiday for myself, after Diana left it was out with the hoover and cobweb duster, househusband chores finished, 

in the afternoon I watched Persuasion, what a delightful film, which was based on the last novel completed by Jane Austen, it was published on December 20, 1817, six months after her death, although the title page is dated 1818, the story concerns Anne Elliot, a young Englishwoman of 27 years, whose family moves to lower their expenses and reduce their debt by renting their home to an Admiral and his wife. The wife's brother, Captain Frederick Wentworth, was engaged to Anne in 1806, but the engagement was broken when Anne was persuaded by her friends and family to end their relationship. Anne and Captain Wentworth, both single and unattached, meet again after a seven-year separation, setting the scene for many humorous encounters as well as a second, well-considered chance  at love and marriage for Anne in her second bloom, I just love the way through the film Anne talked to you, the viewer, as though you were her best friend, that only she could see and talk to, after my evening meal a real horror,

Pandorum, scary dairy in the extreme, in a spaceship is carrying New World colonists, a couple of crewmembers wake early to find they are food for, well you will have to watch it to see! a very well made but underrated scary sci-fi, 

for my late evening film Downfall, I watched it once before in 2010 an decided to watch it a again, the story is introduced and ends with Hitler's secretary Traudl Junge of the last days in the bunker and the madness of the last days of the war, Downfall, a harrowing, though well made semi-documentary, it is in German with English subtitles, at the end of which Diana arrived home, so it was feet up for a chat and a coffee as we watched a New Tricks, before we were off to bed.


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