Recap: A funeral of an old war veteran once again unites his friends. Now only two of them remain, the widow Ethel Ann and her friend Jack. They reminisce about times before the war, when Chuck and Teddy still lived. Times were good, and Ethel Ann were very much in love with Teddy, so much they actually married in secret. But their future didn't become as it was supposed to. Ethel Ann's husband just buried wasn't Teddy, but Chuck. And only Jack and Ethel Ann, not even Ethel Ann's own daughter, know the true love story. But far away, on an hill in Belfast, a young kid finds a ring, Ethel's and Teddy's secret wedding ring, and the secret is slowly revealed. But pain buried for half a century doesn't go easy.
Comments: Not sure what Attenborough and Woodward wanted with this movie. It is a good story, also supposedly inspired by a true event, with a lot of different parts, each contributing to slowly unfold the secret. But there is two problems, the secret is revealed almost immediately, and with so much to tell, from different times and different places, the movie has no time to really explore any part in depth. It becomes shallow. And despite credited as a romance, I didn't find it very romantic. There certainly is no happy love left, and more problematic, it is forced to be too shallow to bring forward any real emotions. All that is left is an OK drama about how young people were affected by the war, and that not every story was a happy one. It makes for an average movie, nothing more.
As this is written, 5 of the 7 keywords of the movie are relating to female nudity. It seems wrong when those relate to just one brief scene, that is rather unnecessary too. This is not a movie with much nudity. It is not sensual in any part, there are barely emotions. It is best described as a war drama, with all that it entails.
5/10
Comments: Not sure what Attenborough and Woodward wanted with this movie. It is a good story, also supposedly inspired by a true event, with a lot of different parts, each contributing to slowly unfold the secret. But there is two problems, the secret is revealed almost immediately, and with so much to tell, from different times and different places, the movie has no time to really explore any part in depth. It becomes shallow. And despite credited as a romance, I didn't find it very romantic. There certainly is no happy love left, and more problematic, it is forced to be too shallow to bring forward any real emotions. All that is left is an OK drama about how young people were affected by the war, and that not every story was a happy one. It makes for an average movie, nothing more.
As this is written, 5 of the 7 keywords of the movie are relating to female nudity. It seems wrong when those relate to just one brief scene, that is rather unnecessary too. This is not a movie with much nudity. It is not sensual in any part, there are barely emotions. It is best described as a war drama, with all that it entails.
5/10