Can you believe!!

This is one great drama.

Please don't scare me like that. I was a kid at Junior School when I was an extra in the Hospital scene (filmed at Rossendale General Hospital, in case anyone is interested!).

I'm 30 later this year, very very frightening!

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Well this film was a disappointment to me.

I thought the characters came through very well and they were really entertaining. I felt I also got a sense of how unusual Jeanette’s upbringing was. What really was apparent was that she was clearly different to all the other children but to her but she couldn’t understand why: she didn’t understand that everyone else’s background was not the same as hers and this caused her so many problems.

The ending, however, was an anticlimax. I didn’t understand from the rest of the film that she was attracted to women, it was just at the end when she was reflecting on her childhood with her girlfriend that this issue came into it, unless I missed something. The film was an entertaining story but not very deep and was not at all what you might call visual art.

I was so frustrated with the film that I then read the book and realised there was so much more to it that the film did not go into. I would also be careful about seeing a film based on a book again: maybe it is better just to read the book and just watch films that were designed to be films…what does everyone else think?

The other think I don’t really understand was that Jeanette Winterson says the book is not autobiographical but there are so many things in common and she even calls the main character of the book/film the same name.

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