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List Price: $24.99 Our Price: $22.49 You Save: $2.5 Features • Color • DVD-Video • Widescreen • NTSC In Theaters : 2006 DVD Release : 11 March, 2008 |
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| This drama is based on the diary of Nella Last, a Lancashire housewife who wrote for the Mass Observation survey, a social studies unit which still exists to this day with the aim of recording the daily lives of British citizens. Victoria Wood stars as Nella and is also the script writer for this drama. Better known in the UK for her compelling comedy, Wood clearly demonstrates her abilty to convey the complexity of life in both her writing and acting here (much as British audiences have become used to her doing with her comedy). Nella is drifting at the start of the War, unhappy, roleless and confined by a stayed, emtoinless marriage. The War changes her life in terms of givng her a means to express her emotional world in her writing and finding a role as a volunteer in the WVS (Women's Voluntary Service, which has since become the Women's Royal Voluntary Service as a result of it's sterling WW2 work). The drama beautifully explores so many complexities of Nella's life, Brish social life in the 30's -40's and the massive amounts of change brought to so many British lives as a result of WW2, particualrly the lives of Women. Of particular note in terms of developing dram and human interest in the story are Nella's friendship with the WVS leader and the struggle Nella and she have to reconcile a genuine warmth for each other alongside their differing class backgrounds and power based struggles. Also the highly emotional and changing relationship she has with her son Cliff, a tender, loving relationship which becomes tainted by grief, loss and the growing distance the war places between them. Excellent stuff and a real, gritty and honest exploration of the every day emotional effects of War. | |
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