Amazing Grace

[ghoti_mhic_uait]

I love a bit of politics, me, and this was political drama where the good guys win.

I don't know whether it would still be enjoyable or worth watching if that's not your thing, but I'm glad we went.

Acting was good, direction was good, I loved the way they skipped the boring bits and messed about with the timeline to make the story work (as in jumping from time to time, rather than moving history).

A very uplifting film.

I do wish that British film makers were less band-wagon jumpers, though. Remember when I got sick of swirly camera work (the sort in Calendar Girls)? Well, now I;m bored of explanatory 'what comes next' text at the end. Get your own gimmick!

Comments

[rysmiel.livejournal.com]

It could have done with a bit less simplification on Clarkson in France, and it's arguably a bit unfair to say that much about Wilberforce's efforts on slavery and not mention the 1832 Reform Act at all; it's also a bit misleading, though defendable, not to have mentioned about there being no slavery in Britain itself from quite a bit earlier.

On the other hand, I thought prsenting the Commons and the Lords as one house was a great bit of storytelling. And if any of the sympathetic politicians of our current age come away from it with the message that sometimes being pure of heart isn't entirely sufficient and you also need a bit of tactical sneakiness, that would be no bad thing at all.