Well, I basically thought it had some very very good bits in it, but wasn't sure how well it all hung together. Although that's generally not a great problem for me. Also, it seemed to me very obviously made for the stage rather than the screen.
I loved the songs and the film clip recreations in the classrooms, and I loved Hector talking to Posner about poetry - about reading being like 'someone reaching out a hand', and I loved the Irwin/Dakin flirting. And I loved Mrs Lintott.
I did wonder how I might have reacted to this film if I hadn't known it was by Alan Bennett, being a fan and being familiar with his earlier work. Particularly the ending, with Posner's seemingly inevitable development into another Hector - the repressed gay teacher who 'doesn't touch the boys...'
That's as much as my brain can manage tonight - killed by NaNoWriMo. :)
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Well, I basically thought it had some very very good bits in it, but wasn't sure how well it all hung together. Although that's generally not a great problem for me. Also, it seemed to me very obviously made for the stage rather than the screen.
I loved the songs and the film clip recreations in the classrooms, and I loved Hector talking to Posner about poetry - about reading being like 'someone reaching out a hand', and I loved the Irwin/Dakin flirting. And I loved Mrs Lintott.
I did wonder how I might have reacted to this film if I hadn't known it was by Alan Bennett, being a fan and being familiar with his earlier work. Particularly the ending, with Posner's seemingly inevitable development into another Hector - the repressed gay teacher who 'doesn't touch the boys...'
That's as much as my brain can manage tonight - killed by NaNoWriMo. :)